Features
- Solid Cedar Top
- Solid Mahogany Back/Sides
- Grand Concert
- Hardshell Case Included
Price: $2,998.00
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Product Description
The GC5 is intimate and curvy yet with volume that belies its size. The slotted peghead and short-scale neck deliver a more "woody" tone and an unbelievably easy feel on the fretboard. Western Red cedar provides the soundboard for this mahogany guitar, while traditional acoustic guitar styling creates the elegant, understated look.
6-String Grand Concert body Western red cedar top Tropical American mahogany back, sides, and neck Abalone soundhole rosette and fretboard inlays Ebony fretboard and bridge Tusq nut and saddle Taylor slot-head tuners Adjustable truss rode Strung with Elixir Light Gauge Strings with NANOWEB Coating
Taylor's Grand Concert Shape
Because of its smaller size, Taylor's Grand Concert traditionally has been a comfortable, "intimate" guitar--something to wrap oneself around. Its clarity, balanced response, scaled-down proportions, and scalloped bracing make it ideal for fingerstyle. Stage performers appreciate its body-friendly size and contours, and those who work in the recording studio love its controlled overtones. In 2000, Taylor re-designed the Grand Concert to bring it more in line with the other Bob Taylor originals, and then in 2004 they expanded its body depth by a quarter-inch and revoiced it to add volume and bass response giving it a tone that belies its size.
Features Taylor's Grand Concert body shape.
Solid western red cedar top is joined with tropical American mahogany back and sides for a wide dynamic range and mellow, warm tone.
Dynamic Range with a Mellow, Warm Tone
The top is made from western red cedar, which has been used for decades as a soundboard material on classical guitars. Cedar is a "soft" wood known for producing a "warm," mellow tone. Its overtones are evenly distributed, rather than concentrated on the highs and lows, making it especially suitable for fingerstyle playing. Cedars light brown color also lends a guitar a visual warmth that many players find appealing.
The back, sides, and neck are made from tropical American mahogany, which is supple enough to make excellent, responsive bodies while remaining sufficiently strong and stable.
Construction
Taylor takes pride in using the finest quality woods for their guitars, like ebony for every fretboard they make. The tone woods for the GC5 were quartersawn and carefully book-matched before being sorted, dried, and prepared by Bob Taylor and his