317
The Grand Pacific 317, featuring our new round-shoulder dreadnought body voiced with Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, helps usher in a whole new Taylor sound. Notes blend smoothly together to produce a warm and seasoned acoustic voice with clear low-end power. Built with solid sapele back and sides and a solid Sitka spruce top, the guitar’s tonal response sits comfortably between the dry, focused character of mahogany and the harmonically complex sound of rosewood. The body’s wider waist helps produce a strong bass response, but without the woofiness that can sometimes plague bigger-body guitars. That low-end clarity blends evenly with the guitar’s mids and highs, yielding a rich, dynamic tone with notes that overlap into a seamless whole. Our V-Class bracing, tailored for the Grand Pacific body, dials up the power and sustain, along with improved intonation, making this a versatile tool for jamming with other musicians, playing alongside a vocalist, or embarking on solo adventures. Whatever your musical calling, the Grand Pacific 317 will make an inspiring companion.
Grand Pacific
A complete re-interpretation of the traditional dreadnaught, with a sonic character completely unlike anything else in the Taylor line, the unique round-shoulder silhouette of the Grand Pacific – brainchild of Taylor Master Builder Andy Powers is a veritable cauldron of tone. Lush washes of colour, a distinct blurring of notes and profound warmth – all encouraged by the revolutionary V-Class bracing system. Whether you’re a traditionalist hankering for classic looks, or chasing the allure of something completely different - with a seductively bold and versatile tonal profile, excellent playing comfort and classic Taylor playability, the Grand Pacific will scratch your itch.
Sapele
Sapele produces a warm and mellow tonal quality, similar to that of mahogany, for a full and balanced tone with a good helping of volume. Its woody response and punchy midrange make it a popular choice for players seeking a fundamental-rich sound with minimal overtones.
Sitka Spruce
Sitka Spruce is the most commonly used wood for guitar tops. Sitka generates a broad dynamic range and accommodates numerous playing styles from aggressive strumming to fingerpicking. As a guitar soundboard, Sitka spruce is the tonewood standard of the modern era. It’s used on 85-90 percent of the guitars that Taylor makes. Its combination of strength and elasticity translates into a broad dynamic range, yielding crisp articulation and allowing for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking.
V-class Bracing
Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that plays a vital role in the way the instrument shapes the sound. Although X-bracing has been standard in acoustic guitars for over a century, it creates an innate conflict between two key elements of a guitar's sound: volume and sustain. The guitar's top (its soundboard) contributes significantly to both. The flexibility of the top generates volume (projection), while its stiffness generates sustain. And with X-braced guitar tops, here's where the trade-off comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that. With Taylor's V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible — for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and hence sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection - so it's the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation, not only producing notes that are louder and with longer sustain — but more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing also boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience it for yourself.
Body
- Binding Edge Treatment : Black
- Back Config : 2-piece No Wedge
- Rosette Size : Three Ring
- Back/Side Finish : Satin
- Stain/Sunburst : Medium Brown Stain Back/Sides/Neck
- Top Finish : Gloss
- Rosette Material : Plastic
Neck
- Neck Width : 1-3/4"
- Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment : Black
- Type of Neck Joint : Scarf
- Fretboard Wood : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Heel Length : 3-1/2"
- Fretboard Inlay : Gemstone, Italian Acrylic
- Heel Cap Binding : Black
- Neck/Heel : Tropical Mahogany
- Neck Finish : Satin
Peghead
- Peghead Finish : Satin
- Peghead Type : Standard
- Headstock Overlay : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Logo : Italian Acrylic
- Peghead Inlay : Gemstone, Italian Acrylic
Other
- Bridge Pins : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Buttons : Nickel
- Scale Length : 25-1/2"
- Bracing : V-Class Bracing
- Pickguard : Black
- Tuners : Taylor Nickel
- Strings : Phosphor Bronze Medium
- Body Width : 16"
- Nut & Saddle : Black Graphite, Micarta Saddle
- Truss Rod Cover : Black Plastic
- Number of Frets : Strings
- Case : Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral
- Body Length : 20"
- Body Depth : 4 5/8"
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