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Taylor AD17 Acoustic Guitar #1209300119 - Used  From Taylor

A Back to Basics Acoustic that Embraces Taylor's Tradition and Innovation!

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Condition: Used, Excellent

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Manufacturer's Description from Taylor

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 U.S.-made, solid-wood guitars that are distilled into the essential elements of premium musical performance, and deliver these instruments at a very affordable price. The 2021 AD17 American Dream Grand Pacific 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 2021 AD17 American Dream Grand Pacific 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.

Tonewood 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.

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About Manufacturer

Headquartered in El Cajon, California, Taylor Guitars was founded in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug, and has grown into the leading global builder of premium acoustic guitars. Taylor employs over 900 people and currently produces hundreds of guitars per day in its state-of-the-art factory complexes in both El Cajon and in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. The company maintains an active dealer network, with Taylor guitars sold through hundreds of retail locations in North America and with international distribution to 60 countries, including a distribution warehouse and factory service center in the Netherlands.

Renowned for blending modern, innovative manufacturing techniques with a master craftsman's attention to detail, Taylor guitars are widely considered among the best-sounding and easiest to play in the world. The company was a pioneer in the use of computer mills, lasers and other high-tech tools and proprietary machinery, and today, Bob Taylor is widely recognized throughout the musical instrument industry as the visionary acoustic guitar manufacturer. Among the company’s many innovations are its patented Taylor Neck, the first major innovation in the construction of the acoustic guitar in the last 100 years; the award-winning Expression System® 2 (ES2) pickup, a groundbreaking approach to amplifying an acoustic guitar; and the T5, the first, true hybrid acoustic and electric guitar that can produce amplified acoustic tones, full-crunch electric, and everything in-between with the flip of a five-way switch.

In addition to its forward-thinking approach to guitar design and manufacturing, Taylor has applied that same approach to its wood sourcing and environmental sustainability initiatives. Taylor is dedicated to the pursuit of best practices in forest management, new models of reforestation, and bringing ethically harvested tonewoods to market. This approach, together with outstanding playability, flawless craftsmanship, and stunning aesthetics, are just a few of the reasons that many of today’s leading musicians make Taylor their guitar of choice. The company’s artist roster numbers in the thousands, and includes the likes of Taylor Swift, Jason Mraz, Zac Brown, and many other established musicians.

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: United States