Taylor 814ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic Guitar New

Up Your Game with the Stunning Taylor 814CE Grand Auditorium Guitar with ES2 Pickup – Featuring Solid Indian Rosewood Back and Sides with Sitka Spruce Top.

Taylor’s popular 814ce offers players the ultimate all-purpose guitar. Its balance, warmth and articulation are great for fingerstyle, it has enough punch as a strummer to front a band, and the top-end power will fuel lead runs without getting shrill. It’s a great choice for a gigging player looking for one guitar that can cover it all.

The revoicing of the 800 Series has brought greater warmth, a more mature midrange, and a looser, more luxurious low end to the 814ce, thanks in part to the customized bracing and a new, custom-calibrated Elixir HD Light string-gauge set. Premium appointments include maple binding and back strip, rosewood top edge trim, a rosewood pickguard, Taylor’s new Element fretboard inlay in mother-of-pearl, a marbled fretboard, and new Expression System 2 acoustic electronics. The guitar features a Venetian cutaway and includes a Taylor deluxe hardshell case.

Grand Auditorium

The most versatile and popular of Taylor’s guitar shapes. Its well-defined midrange contributes to a clear and balanced tone. It’s responsive enough for fingerstyle players and powerful enough for pickers and strummers to get a lively response. Think of it as a jack of all trades.

Sitka Spruce

The most commonly used wood for guitar tops, Sitka generates a broad dynamic range and accommodates numerous playing styles, from aggressive strumming to fingerpicking.

Indian Rosewood

Indian rosewood’s sweeping frequency range at both ends of the tonal spectrum has made it one of the most popular and musically rich tonewoods. Its deep lows can assert a throaty growl, while bright, sparkling treble notes ring out with bell-like, high-fidelity clarity.

EXPRESSION SYSTEM 2

Taylor’s breakthrough acoustic pickup marks a major advance in piezo technology thanks to a patented behind-the-saddle design. The unique placement of three piezo sensors captures a more dynamic range of acoustic sound and responds well in a variety of settings.

Venetian

Standard on “ce” models in the 300 Series and up, the Venetian cutaway is known for its soft, round lines. The sloping peak of the cutaway will vary depending on the shape of the guitar. The Grand Concert, Grand Auditorium, and Grand Symphony have a steeper slope, while the Dreadnought is a bit flatter. Our Grand Concert nylon-string models also feature a subtle, flatter slope, while our 100 and 200 Series cutaway models incorporate our flattest slope.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Back/Side Wood: Indian Rosewood
• Scale length: 25-1/2″
• Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
• Body Length: 20″
• Electronics: Expression System 2®
• Body Width: 16″
• Cutaway: Venetian
• Body Depth: 4 3/8″
• Nut & Saddle: Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
• Neck Width: 1-3/4″
• Neck Wood: Tropical Mahogany
• Bracing: Advanced Performance with Relief Rout
• Fretboard Wood: Ebony
• Fretboard Inlay: Element
• Headstock Overlay: Ebony
• Binding: Maple .080″
• Bridge Pins: Ebony with Abalone Dots
• Tuners: Taylor Nickel
• Truss Rod Cover: Ebony
• Back/Side Finish: Gloss 3.5
• Top Finish: Gloss 3.5
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Pickguard: Rosewood
• Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown
• Number of Frets: 20
• Brand of Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze HD Light
• Buttons: Nickel
• Edge Trim: Indian Rosewood
• Fretboard Binding: Maple
• Heel Cap Binding: Maple
• Heel length: 3-1/2″
• Peghead Finish: Gloss
• Peghead Binding: Maple
• Peghead Logo: Taylor Mother of Pearl
• Peghead Type: Standard
• Rosette Mat.: Abalone
• Rosette Size: Single Ring
• Type of Neck Joint: Scarf

Manufacturer: Taylor Guitars
Model: 814CE
SKU: I400396-1-WHXC

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