Features
- Solid Sitka Spruce Top
- Solid Maple Back/Sides
- Grand Concert
- Hardshell Case Included
Price: $2,998.00
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Product Description
The GC6 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. Figured Big Leaf maple is paired with a Sitka spruce top, while traditional acoustic guitar styling creates the elegant, understated look.
6-String Grand Concert body Sitka spruce top Big leaf maple back and sides 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.
Made from Sitka and Big Leaf Maple
The top is made from sitka spruce, a dense, straight-grained wood that has the highest strength and elasticity-to-weight ratio among available tonewoods. It's these attributes that make sitka spruce an ideal material not only for soundboards, but also for internal bracing. The sitka top will produce a tone slightly brighter tone than Engelmann spruce.
The back and sides are made from big leaf maple, a wood with high-performance properties that have made it a favorite on stages and in recording studios. Its stiff, tight grain produces a clear, bright, compressed, balanced tone capable of cutting through an ensemble mix, and its relatively quick note "decay" gives maple a hedge against feedback. Maples range of tan coloration and widely varying grain figure--fiddleback, quilted, or highly flamed--make it one of the more beautiful tonewoods.
In short, the distinctive blend of big leaf maple and sitka spruce gives the GC6 a bright, crystaline timbre with strong projection and warm overtones. It's a combination that truly "cuts through."