Taylor Guitars GS 12-String Spruce/Maple Acoustic/Electric Guitar w/Case
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The new 600 Series guitars are warmer, more dynamic, and more responsive instruments with more broadly appealing tonal properties than any maple guitars before them.
New Features:
Customized Wood Thicknesses and Bracing: The top and back thicknesses have been specially gauged for each body shape. The backs feature new maple-specific bracing profiles and patterns to enhance the responsiveness. As a result, "the backs of these guitars work a lot like an archtop guitar or a violin if you were to delete its soundpost. These braces allow the back to move in a much warmer, stronger way. Players will hear more volume, more projection, and more low-end warmth than a maple guitar theyve heard in the past." The back and sides also undergo a special seasoning process to enhance the resonance and stability.
Torrefaction: This carefully controlled, high-temperature roasting process is applied to the Sitka spruce tops to give a new guitar an aged or played-in sound. By aging the wood on a molecular level, torrefaction makes the top warmer and more responsive. "For a player, it feels like the notes are just falling out of the guitar. As soon as you touch the strings, it takes hardly any effort; it doesn't feel like you have to pry the sound out."
Hand-Rubbed Color and Finish: Not only do the new 600s feature the same ultra-thin 3.5-mil clear gloss finish developed for the 800 Series, the maple back and sides boast an additional breakthrough: the inclusion of a proprietary hand-rubbed color application process that adds no additional thickness to the finish. The stain enhances maple's visual aesthetic without causing any damping in the natural movement of the guitar body, helping to boost the tonal projection and sustain. The new color, "Brown Sugar," complements the slightly darker color of the spruce tops, a result of the torrefaction process.
Protein Glue: The same protein glues used in the company's redesigned 800 Series are used in the 600 Series for the critical tone-producing parts, namely for the "power train" components: the bracing and bridge to top joint.
Expression System 2 Pickup: The acoustic voicing enhancements designed for the new 600 Series translate into amplified form with Taylors new Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics. The ES2 incorporates three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. These are installed behind the saddle, through the bridge, and effectively capture more of each guitars dynamic properties and acoustic energy.
First World Tonewood: Maple is a tonewood that can be harvested specifically for instruments in the United States, a project that longtime tonewood partner Steve McMinn of Pacific Rim Tonewoods is undertaking. Given its geographical location, maple grows in politically and economically stable environments and is considered to be conflict free and well-managed. This is important to Taylor cofounder, Bob Taylor. "Now and in the future, maple forests will be among the healthiest and most sustainable sources of instrument wood," he says. "This is a species from our own backyard that can be formed into world-class instruments for generations to come. So, it is an important wood for us as a forward-thinking instrument manufacturer. This redesign is our way of showing players how great a maple and spruce instrument can look and sound."
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
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| GS 12-String Spruce/Maple Acoustic/Electric Guitar w/Case | 435742 |
