Taylor 214ce DLX Limited-Edition Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar Transparent Grey
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Taylor 214ce DLX Limited-Edition Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar Transparent Grey
Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric with a solid Lutz spruce top and Taylor’s ES2 electronics.
Serving up striking looks along with bold tone, the Taylor 214ce DLX LTD Grand Auditorium sets a high bar for musical utility and visual appeal. Finished with glossy back and sides, the 214ce DLX LTD boasts a solid Lutz spruce top with layered Big Leaf maple back and sides, yielding a punchy, powerful voice that adapts beautifully across playing styles and genres. The always-comfortable Taylor neck makes fretting a breeze, ensuring that this model is fit for players of all ability levels. Built-in Expression System 2 electronics provide organic sound whenever you need to plug in, and the included hardshell case keeps your guitar safe wherever you need to take it.
Taylor's 200 Deluxe Series delivers all the essentials of a great guitar — exquisite playability, a full and articulate voice, impeccable intonation up the neck, and Taylor's top-of-the-line, professional-grade ES-2 electronics. This collection strikes a balance between tasteful design constraint and aesthetic variety, bringing Taylor's signature tonal clarity and playability into a stage-worthy mix of guitar options.
Grand Auditorium Shape
A Taylor original, the Grand Auditorium helped establish the Taylor acoustic sound. The popular body style makes for a versatile guitar that yields ample volume in response to light fingerpicking and reacts to medium strumming and flatpicking with a clear, balanced sound across the tonal spectrum.
Tonewoods
Lutz spruce is a naturally occurring hybrid of Sitka and White Engelmann spruce. The tone is a blend between the characteristics of Sitka and the extra power and punch of Adirondack spruce. The combination of Lutz spruce with a Big Leaf Maple body generates a focused tone with attack and responsiveness.
Taylor ES2 Electronics
The heart of the Expression System 2 is Taylor’s patented behind-the-saddle pickup, which features three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. Because the pickup doesn't sit under the saddle, the bottom of the saddle comes in full contact with the bridge, allowing all the nuance of the guitar's tone to come through clearly, whether playing acoustically or plugged-in. Together with Taylor’s custom-designed “professional audio”-grade preamp, this system produces exceptional amplified tone and responsiveness. The Taylor Expression System 2 operates through a proprietary 9-volt battery compartment and easy-to-use volume, and active bass and treble controls.
Features
- Solid Lutz spruce top, layered Big Leaf maple back and sides
- Hard rock maple neck, genuine African ebony fingerboard and bridge
- Taylor satin black tuning machines, Micarta "Wave" saddle and NuBone nut
- Taylor Expression System 2 Professional Audio-Grade electronics, onboard phase switch
214ce DLX Limited-Edition Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar Specifications:
- Body
- Body type: Grand Auditorium, Venetian Cutaway
- Top wood: Solid Lutz Spruce
- Back & sides: Layered Big Leaf Maple
- Bracing pattern: Forward Shifted Pattern
- Body finish: Gloss
- Neck
- Neck shape: Standard Taylor Profile
- Nut width: 1 11/16" (42.8mm)
- Fingerboard: Genuine African Ebony
- Neck wood: Hard Rock Maple
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Number of frets: 20
- Neck finish: Satin
- Bridge: Genuine African Ebony
- Saddle & nut: Micarta "Wave"; NuBone
- Electronics
- Pickup/preamp: Taylor Behind-the-saddle transducer with adjustable sensors
- EQ/Tuner: 3-band, No
- Other
- Tuning machines: Taylor satin black
- Orientation: Right-Handed
- Number of strings: 6-string
- Case: Hardshell Case
- Country of Origin: Mexico