Taylor Custom Shop Grand Auditorium #1210103110 - shaded edgeburst

Made from species we have personally selected from Taylor's California factory inventory, the TAYLOR Custom Shop Grand Auditorium #1210103110 is an exceptional instrument, both acoustically and aesthetically. This Grand Auditorium electro-acoustic steel-string acoustic guitar with cutaway features a Sinker Redwood top, a Hawaiian Koa back and sides combo, a Mahogany neck and an Ebony fingerboard.

The soundboard is made of "Sinker Redwood", which can be considered an exceptional Cedar. Derived from hundred-year-old Sequoias immersed in riverbeds, it is a particularly resonant, rich and warm wood.

Koa is a tropical hardwood endemic to the island of Hawaii. It is a dense wood that combines the rich mid-range of Mahogany with the brilliance of Maple. Instruments made from Koa will inevitably improve with years of use, gaining in warmth, smoothness and openness, and naturally benefit from the V-Class bracing, a landmark development in acoustic guitar design. These innovative bracings, developed by master luthier Andy Powers, give the instrument superior projection, better tonal balance, optimized intonation and remarkable sustain. The Grand Auditorium or 000 size is the consensus. In an ideal intermediate position between the Grand Concert (00 Classical style) and the essential Dreadnought, it combines ergonomics and tonal balance. It's certainly the most versatile format, suitable for flat-pickers as well as finger-pickers.Taylor Expression System 2 Preamp: to faithfully reproduce the amplitude and fundamental character of their acoustics, it took Taylor several years to develop the Expression System (ES). Thanks to new sensors and a substantially redesigned circuit, Expression System 2 offers even greater responsiveness and dynamics, and according to Taylor, around 25% more warmth.