312Ce
Crafted at the intersection of solid-wood tone and workhorse utility, the 312ce generates a clear, punchy midrange response with a warm, woody character. With solid sapele back and sides and a Sitka spruce top, players can expect minimal overtones and a focus on the fundamental note, while our V-Class bracing serves up greater volume and longer sustain. The compact frame of the Grand Concert body shape makes for a comfortable, accommodating experience, and will especially appeal to fingerstyle players. The ES2 pickup provides natural-sounding amplified tone, making this a great guitar for virtually any musical application.
Grand Concert
One of the smaller body shapes in the Taylor family, with a slightly shorter scale length – the Grand Concert is easy to both wrap yourself around and press down on the frets, due to a lighter string tension – making it perfect for fingerstyle playing, young people just starting out and those with smaller hands / seeking a lighter touch. As at home in the studio as it is being with you on the road, the clarity of tone a Grand Concert guitar provides makes it perfect to layer with instruments in the mix where more dominating tones may struggle to slot into place. An extremely efficient design, the smaller body frame is inherently stronger, requiring less energy to encourage the soundboard to react - so you’ll find it surprisingly easy to set the strings in motion and really sing.
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.
ES-2 Pickup
If you need to amplify your sound, you'll love the revolutionary onboard ES2 pickup system. The 3 individual sensors located behind the saddle combine with the pro-grade preamp to deliver an unmatched dynamics, perfect for live or studio.
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 : 3-1/4"
- 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 Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
- Buttons : Ebony
- Edge Trim : Maple, Indian Rosewood
- Scale Length : 24-7/8"
- Bracing : V-Class Bracing
- Pickguard : Rosewood
- Tuners : Taylor Slot Head
- Strings : Phosphor Bronze Light
- Body Width : 15"
- Nut & Saddle : Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
- Truss Rod Cover : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Number of Frets : Strings
- Case : Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown
- Body Length : 19 1/2"
- Body Depth : 4 3/8"
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