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Taylor “American Dream”/AD17e + Case - $1,100 (Gardiner)
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Very good condition. Solid spruce top, solid ovangkol back and sides, good mahogany neck. Slope shoulder dreadnaught design. Some pick marks on matte finish top which do not affect playability (see photo). Straight neck, action on spec.
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.