Taylor Next Generation & Gold Label series

Taylor's best-selling Grand Auditorium, reimagined and now joined by Grand Concert models. The versatile, player-friendly shape that sets the modern Taylor standard for comfort, performance and musical utility, now upgraded with three key features.

• Scalloped V-Class Bracing: enhances the top movement and responsiveness, yielding more warmth, power and open-string richness.
• Action Control Neck: a long-tenon neck joint improves tonal transfer with the body for added warmth and sustain, while the shimless action control feature allows quick, precise string-height adjustments with a simple turn of a bolt through the soundhole.
• Claria Pickup System: pairs a reimagined undersaddle piezo pickup with a new proprietary preamp to deliver easy, reliable amplified tone in any live performance setting.

The Gold Label brings Taylor into new sonic territory, reaching back to the beloved flat-top guitars of the 1930s and 1940s. To achieve its warm, traditional heritage sound, the series comes with three key features.

• A new Super Auditorium shape: The proportions are similar to Taylor's Grand Auditorium, but the body is slightly longer and the lower bout is slightly wider. Taylor's Andy Powers describes it as a ‘classically proportioned set of curves’.
• New Fanned V-Class bracing: This V-class variant has a fan-like arrangement of braces in the lower bout of the top. They are put in place with traditional hot hide glue.
• A new long-tenon neck joint: The improved wood joint of the long-tenon translates into greater low-end resonance and a sound that some compare to historic guitars with a dovetail neck joint. But this design remains glueless and allows for even easier and more precise micro-adjustment of the neck angle.