The Taylor GT Urban Ash
Designed from the ground up for comfort, playability and rich tone, the GT Urban Ash debuts a new compact body shape with a big, resonant acoustic voice. The GT (Grand Theater) shares the basic footprint of the jumbo-sized Grand Orchestra shape, but its proportions have been scaled down (including a shallower body depth), creating a fun, inviting feel in a package that you can take virtually anywhere. The GT also features a uniquely proportioned neck with a scale length of 24-⅛”, a bit longer than the GS Mini and a bit shorter than the Grand Concert. The neck provides a slinky fretting feel thanks to reduced string tension. It comes together in the GT Urban Ash, built with solid back and sides of the responsibly sourced tonewood that gives the guitar its name. A solid spruce top helps charge the GT’s tonal response with projection that belies its small frame, powered by the new asymmetrical C-Class bracing design, which translates the tone-enhancing properties of V-Class bracing into a sonic engine that’s appropriate for this new body shape. Expect a warm, punchy midrange accentuated by crisp treble notes, with an impressive bass response that owes its surprising power to the new bracing scheme. A beautiful fretboard of responsibly sourced smoked eucalyptus delivers the feel of a rosewood fretboard with the tonal character of ebony, while a thin matte finish preserves the guitar’s resonance. A clean-cut appointment package includes Pinnacle inlays in Italian acrylic, a three-ring koa rosette and a dusky Urban Sienna stain on the ash back and sides. It ships in a super-durable yet lightweight AeroCase™.
SPECS:
Highlights
-Scale Length: 24-1/8"
-Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
-Bracing: C-Class
-Truss Rod Cover: Black Plastic
-Pickguard: Tortoise
-Number of Frets: 20
-Tuners: Taylor Nickel Mini
-Case: Aerocase
-Brand of Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze Light
-Body Length: 18-1/2"
-Body Width: 15"
-Body Depth: 3 3/4"
Body
-Binding/Edge Treatment: None
-Top Finish: Matte
-Back Config: 2-Piece No Wedge
-Backstrap Finish: None
-Rosette Size: Three Ring
-Bridge Inlay: None
-Back/Side Finish: Matte
-Armrest Binding: None
-Backstrap Wood: None
-Rosette Mat. Hawaiian Koa
-Stain/Sunburst: Urban Sienna
-Wedge: None
-Armrest: No
Neck
-Neck Width: 1-23/32
-Fretboard Inlay: Pinnacle, Italian Arcylic
-Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment: None
-Heel Cap Binding: Black
-Type of Neck Joint: Scarf
-Neck/Heel: Tropical Mah0gany
-Fretboard Wood: Eucalyptus
-Neck Finish: Matte
-Heel Length: 3-1/4"
Peghead
-Peghead Finish: Matte
-Peghead Binding: None
-Peghead Type: Standard
-Peghead Purfling: None
-Headstock Overlay: Eucalyptus
-Peghead Inlay: None
-Peghead Logo: Italian Acrylic
Other
-Bridge Pins: Black Plastic
-Buttons: Nickel
-Fingerboard Ext: None
-Edge Trim: None
*Models are subject to change without notice
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