TAYLOR 414 ce-N

American acoustic guitar for nylon strings Made in the USA 2012 New current value: €2,500 Warm, full tone: jazz, bossa, and classical music Warm lows, pristine highs, and slightly rounded midrange for dynamic tonal character • Grand Auditorium Body (similar to standard 414ce, but headstock and bridge better suited for nylon strings) • Neck Tropical American Mahogany (Thinner and rounder than a classical guitar) • Fingerboard: Ebony • Scale: 648mm • Nut width: 47.6 mm • Tusq nut and saddle • Solid African Ovangkol back and sides • Top: Solid Canadian Sitka Spruce • Finish: Natural gloss • Venetian cutaway • Body length: 104 cm (20'') • Body width: 40 cm (16") • Body depth: 11 cm (4 5/8") • Neck Width: 1-3/4'' • 20 frets (Neck joins body at 14th fret) • Glover headstock • Patented V-Class Bracing By allowing the soundboard to flex naturally while maintaining stiffness in the center (in the direction of the strings), the V-Class increases volume and sustain longer, creating a more ordered response, offering a musical palette rich and diverse: full, true and consistent notes, with a more harmonic agreement. • ELECTRONICS: Expression System® 2 This is a Taylor proprietary pickup installed behind the saddle (not below), through the bridge, with three pickup sensors individually positioned and calibrated to the saddle via three small Allen screws to capture a more dynamic range of acoustic sound. . Custom-designed "pro audio" preamp, producing exceptional responsiveness that faithfully conveys the voice of Taylor guitar (More Info: For decades, transducers have been placed under the saddle, in the belief that the string and vibration from the top cause the saddle to "bounce" up and down. But Taylor's electronics team, led by David Hosler, discovered that this vertical movement is highly restricted and that the saddle actually "locks" due to the downward pressure of the string tension. This is why the pickup responds with a thin, brittle, or synthetic sound, especially with more aggressive playing. Actually, the saddle's natural range of motion is from side to side, like a pendulum. That revelation prompted Taylor's design team to relocate the sensors to the rear, which respond more naturally to guitar power.)