Essential Information About the GS Mini Sapele Guitar
- Compact format, big sound: the GS Mini silhouette offers astonishing projection for a travel guitar.
- Solid Sitka spruce top: bright attack, wide dynamics, and excellent responsiveness for both fingerstyle and pick playing.
- Layered sapele back and sides: balanced tone, increased stability, and resistance to climate variations.
- Immediate comfort: short 23.5" / 597 mm scale length and low action for smooth playability, includes a gig bag for taking it anywhere.
The GS Mini, the "little" Taylor that became a benchmark
A true bestseller in the Taylor range, the GS Mini redefined the "travel" guitar by combining compactness and sound power. The Sapele version stands out as a versatile and accessible model, halfway between a Baby and a Grand Auditorium, while retaining the brand's premium DNA (solid top, meticulous luthiery, durable matte finish).
For which musician and styles?
Ideal as a first "real" acoustic or as a second guitar to take along, it suits beginners as well as experienced guitarists. Folk, pop, acoustic rock, blues, and vocal accompaniment: its balanced sound facilitates steady strumming as well as precise fingerpicking, with a reassuring feel for small hands.
The sound
The solid Sitka spruce top brings breadth, clarity, and volume reserve. The layered sapele back and sides enhance midrange definition and overall stability. The GS Mini body concentrates energy for direct projection and surprising sustain given the size. The short scale reduces string tension: softer attacks, easy bending, tight lows, and bright highs, perfect for alternating fingerpicking and pick playing.
Recommended compatible accessories
To preserve the original feel, choose a set of
phosphor bronze 13-56 strings. An
acoustic guitar capo for steel strings will perfectly fit the fingerboard radius. For transport and enhanced protection, opt for a
GS Mini format hard case in addition to the included gig bag. An
acoustic humidifier is recommended to stabilize the humidity of the solid top.
Technical Specifications
Body
- Top: torrefied solid Sitka spruce
- Back and sides: layered sapele (2-piece or 4-piece "Simons Wedge" configuration)
- Shape: GS Mini, non-cutaway
- Top finish: matte
- Back and sides finish: matte
- Body binding: none
Neck
- Neck wood: tropical mahogany
- Fingerboard: ebony
- Inlays: 4 mm Italian acrylic dots
- Neck finish: matte
- Scale length: 23.5" / 597 mm
- Radius: 15" / 381 mm
- Nut width: 43 mm / 1.69"
- Number of frets: 20
- Headstock inlay/binding: none
- Headstock type: GS Mini paddle
- Headstock finish: matte
Hardware
- Bridge: ebony
- Nut: Nubone
- Saddle: Micarta
- Bridge pins: black
- Tuners: die-cast chrome
- Pickguard: black
Miscellaneous
- Strings installed: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Medium (.013 - .056)
- Includes gig bag
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