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Ring in 50 Years of Taylor with Presentation Series Perfection





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Boasting a beautiful set of Claro walnut back and sides handpicked from Bob Taylor’s secret stash, the Presentation series Taylor 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD epitomizes Taylor’s 50-year-strong mission of furthering the art of acoustic guitar design. It all starts off with Taylor’s iconic Grand Auditorium body shape, favored for its sweeping sonic versatility, matched with a Western red cedar top. The result? A superlative fingerstyle instrument that sings with a harmonic-rich bloom, along with enough headroom to serve as any singer/songwriter’s showpiece 6-string. Moreover, a wealth of intricate Byzantine inlays, beautiful binding, and elegant appointments decorate this instrument, from the ebony-topped mahogany neck to the headstock’s golden Gotoh Luxury tuners. As always, Taylor’s innovative ES-2 electronics system faithfully translates every harmonic nuance and detail of your acoustic tone when it comes time to plug in. An heirloom-grade instrument in every respect, the Taylor 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD represents the very peak of Taylor’s Presentation series.





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Tonewoods straight from Bob Taylor’s personal stash





The 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD’s most astonishing feature comes straight out of Bob Taylor’s personal tonewood vault ? an incredibly figured pair of Claro walnut back and sides. Claro walnut is one of the most visually appealing tonewoods that any maker utilizes on acoustic guitars, with a superb warmth and rich midrange presence that will only improve with age. Next, a Western red cedar top forms a masterful complement to the back and sides by taming their articulation with a rounder, more dynamic response. Combined with V-Class bracing and Taylor’s flagship Grand Auditorium body shape, the PS14ce LTD is truly a fingerstyle player’s dream guitar, although Sweetwater’s strummers find that it offers more than enough headroom for singer/songwriter duties. From bluesy fingerpicking to melodic fingerstyle masterclasses to coffee-house strumming, the 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD represents Taylor’s forward-thinking 6-string tone at its very best.





Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence





Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD, employs the width and depth of a dreadnought, so it delivers prodigious volume that makes it a “tone cannon” in its own right. However, its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium-bodied acoustic guitars more treble zing, in addition to improved playing comfort and a sleeker look. The PS14ce’s Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note you play, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its V-Class-braced top.





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 tradeoff comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that.





Optimized volume, sustain, and intonation





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 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 what guitarists at Sweetwater have already discovered.





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 PS14ce. 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.





Taylor 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Top-of-the-line Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric celebrating Taylor’s 50th anniversary


Western red cedar top supplies a round, rich, and supremely touch-sensitive response that’s perfect for fingerstyle players


Claro walnut back and sides pulled directly from Bob Taylor’s personal tonewood vault beam with gorgeous figuring and an incredibly articulate chime


Fast-playing mahogany neck in Taylor’s traditional Standard Carve


Sleek 15-inch-radius ebony fingerboard, complete with eye-grabbing green standard abalone Byzantine inlays


Taylor’s flagship Grand Auditorium body style serves as a superb do-it-all 6-string design, from hushed fingerstyle to high-energy strumming


Comfortable radiused armrest and deep Venetian cutaway


Glorious gold Gotoh Luxury tuning machines that brandish a refined floral pattern


Complete with a jaw-dropping array of fine visual appointments, including paua purfling, a Byzantine shell/green standard abalone headstock inlay, and gorgeous binding that runs from the body to the fingerboard extension to the tip of the headstock