Taylor AD17 American Dream Grand Pacific Acoustic Guitar Black

Description

Born from adversity and built for value. The American Dream series by Taylor was designed for premium performance and utility. Named after the shop that birthed Taylor Guitars in 1974, these guitars go back to the basics, to a time when Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug had a dream to purse their passion of building quality acoustic guitars that would inspire musicians to play and create music. At the heart and soul of Taylor Guitars is a desire to build the finest acoustic guitars that redefine sound, body shapes and playability, and the American Dream Series embodies these principles of innovation.Facing an unprecedented global crisis, Taylor turned to what they know best: designing and building guitars
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Taylor AD17 American Dream Grand Pacific Acoustic Guitar Black
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Born from adversity and built for value. The American Dream series by Taylor was designed for premium performance and utility. Named after the shop that birthed Taylor Guitars in 1974, these guitars go back to the basics, to a time when Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug had a dream to purse their passion of building quality acoustic guitars that would inspire musicians to play and create music. At the heart and soul of Taylor Guitars is a desire to build the finest acoustic guitars that redefine sound, body shapes and playability, and the American Dream Series embodies these principles of innovation.
Facing an unprecedented global crisis, Taylor turned to what they know best: designing and building guitars. It was during this crisis that Andy Powers and Bob Taylor decided to push themselves to create a new series of US-made, solid-wood guitars that are distilled into the essential elements of premium musical performance, and deliver these instruments at an ultra affordable price. The AD17 features Taylor's innovative Grand Pacific body shape, V-Class bracing, all solid-wood construction, chamfered body edges, eucalyptus fingerboard/bridge/peghead, a super-thin matte finish, and single-ring wood rosette. The AD17 ships in Taylor's AeroCase for maximum protection and portability.
Body Shape
The Grand Pacific brings a new flavor of sound to the Taylor line: warm and seasoned, with broad, round overlapping notes that blend into each other to create a unified harmony. It’s a departure from the focused, precise, clear and vibrant sound of Taylor's Grand Auditorium shape, which helped define what players have come to recognize as “the Taylor Sound.” The Grand Pacific shape eliminates problematic low-end woofiness and muddiness (perceived as a "puff of air") often associated with dreadnought-style guitars. This has been accomplished while retaining the usable, musical, warm power of bass response. The Grand Pacific is especially microphone-friendly and suits flat-pickers, strummers and fingerstyle players alike.
Tone Wood Pairing
Pairing spruce with the ovangkol gives you a tone that is crisp and articulate, yet balanced and responsive to a wide variety of playing styles. Spruce is the most prevalent guitar top wood of the modern era. It blends stiffness and elasticity in just the right proportions, which translates into broad dynamic range with crisp articulation. Tonally, Ovangkol is famous for its punchy midrange and shimmery articulate top end. Its pleasing depth and responsive bass range produce a broad, balanced tone with a lot of punch.
V-Class Bracing
Taylor's V-Class bracing is a fundamental innovation in acoustic guitar design. It is essentially a "sonic engine" that optimizes the response of an acoustic guitar in three key ways: by boosting volume, sustain, and by largely resolving the intonation (in-tune-ness) issues that have long plagued acoustic guitars. V-Class bracing creates purer, more orderly notes that don't cancel each other out or sound "off". They have clearer, more consistent response, and the whole fretboard is brought into greater sonic alignment for a more musical playing and listening experience. Guitars with V-Class bracing are easier to tune; the pitch sounds purer and more solid, and electronic tuners can more easily locate notes for quick, precise tuning. Other benefits: harmonics ring more uniformly down the neck, notes are louder with more projection and sustain, and notes are more consistent, i.e., upper register notes don't get choked out or swallowed. Fewer "sour" sonic qualities exist with chords; a more agreeable relationship is created between notes as they ripen, bloom and decay.
Specifications:
Body
Body type: Taylor Grand Pacific
Cutaway: None
Top wood: Solid Spruce
Back & sides: Ovangkol
Bracing pattern: V-Class Bracing
Body finish: Satin Finish with Urban Sienna (Ash Stain) or Black Top
Orientation: Right-Handed
Neck
Neck shape: Standard Taylor Profile
Nut width: 1-3/4" (44.5 mm)
Fingerboard: Eucalyptus
Neck wood: Tropical Mahogany
Scale length: 25-1/2"
Number of frets: 20
Neck finish: Satin
Other
Headstock overlay: Genuine West African Ebony
Tuning machines: Taylor Nickel
Bridge: Eucalyptus
Saddle & nut: Micarta "Wave" Saddle; Tusq Nut
Number of strings: 6
Special features: Chamfered Edges
Case: AeroCase (Brown)
Accessories: None
Country of origin: USA
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3. Be in brand-new condition, showing no signs of wear or use such as belt-buckle or pick scratches, scuffs, dings, or scrapes on the instrument or collateral materials.