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Taylor’s Delectable Koa Grand Concert





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The Taylor K22ce Grand Concert V-Class acoustic-electric guitar delivers all the sonic benefits of solid Hawaiian koa ? a very special tonewood, and a Taylor specialty. Run some single notes, strum a chord; savor the strong attack, crisp articulation, and voluptuous bloom ? a sound forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing and amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. As your eyes drink in this instrument’s understated elegance, your hands savor its flawless playability and your ears revel in its rich, organic tone. Taylor’s K22ce Grand Concert V-Class is a feast for the senses.





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Ideal for fingerstyle and tracking





For fingerstyle and tracking, Sweetwater’s guitar gurus favor Taylor’s Grand Concert body style, which gives you clarity and balanced tone that lends itself to layering with other instruments in thicker arrangements where a larger-bodied acoustic would take up too much sonic real estate. This guitar’s smaller Grand Concert body and tapered waist not only make it a great studio and stage guitar, but its short scale and lighter string tension also make it easier to play ? perfect for younger players with small hands. It also makes for a more efficient design, in that the smaller body is inherently stronger, which enables it to be more lightly braced, making it easier to set the strings in motion.





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V-Class bracing: a sonic revelation





Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that helps shape its 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 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. 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 are also more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing 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.





The sonic magic of koa





For this instrument’s top, sides, and back, Taylor uses a very special solid tropical hardwood sourced from Hawaiian plantations above 5,000 feet. Koa’s sonic alchemy combines the focused midrange of mahogany with the snappy high end of maple. Sweetwater tip: Due to the wood’s density, koa guitars tend to start out sounding a bit bright; it’s similar to maple in this regard. But the more you play your koa guitar, the more the tone opens up, expanding the midrange and rewarding you with sweeter, richer, more resonant sonority. Oftentimes, guitarists unfamiliar with the tonewood purchase a koa guitar for its stunning visuals, don’t play it enough to allow the wood to warm up, and mistakenly conclude that it’s too bright. Fine koa guitars like the Taylor K22ce deserve to be played every day! With that said, koa’s inherent brightness is ideal for fingerpickers with a meatier touch and for studio layering where you need an acoustic guitar that cuts through the track.





Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics





If you play plugged in, you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your K22ce. The key to this fantastic system is the 3-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it’s positioned and how it’s integrated into the guitar’s saddle, the ES2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls let you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet polarity switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.





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Taylor K22ce Grand Concert V-Class Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Solid Hawaiian koa top, back, and sides; gloss finish


Maple body binding, koa purfling


Abalone/mother-of-pearl trim inlay


V-Class top bracing


Tropical mahogany neck, Standard profile, satin finish


West African ebony fingerboard, 15" radius, maple Spring Vine inlay


24.875" scale length, 20 frets


Taylor ES2 electronics


West African ebony bridge, pins; Micarta saddle


1.75" bone nut


Taylor tuners


Dual-action truss rod, headstock access