Compact Acoustic-electric with Premium Appointments
The Taylor Builder’s Edition 912ce Grand Concert acoustic-electric guitar is ideal for the electric guitar player looking for a compact instrument with a familiar feel. With Builder’s Edition upgrades, including a shorter 24-7/8" neck length, rolled fretboard edges, and beveled cutaway, the 912ce is supremely comfortable and well-suited for intricate lead playing, delivering incredible responsiveness and a clear, precise sound. The combination of rosewood back and sides and a Lutz spruce top built around Taylor’s V-class bracing contributes to the guitar’s warm bell-like tone and focused top end. And the 912ce Builder’s Edition includes Taylor’s innovative Expression System 2 electronics for pristine amplification. Premium ornamentation such as inset paua furling, a koa fretboard, and a paua abalone rosette make the 912ce Builder’s edition a visual delight and one of the most stunning guitars available from Sweetwater.
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Builder’s Edition Collection
Taylor’s premium Builder’s Edition family of acoustic guitars is the brainchild of Taylor master guitar designer Andy Powers. Builder’s Edition guitars were created to highlight Taylor’s V-Class bracing system and to demonstrate Taylor’s most cutting-edge innovations. With a level of craftsmanship typically not offered on standard models, Builder’s Edition guitars provide players with an exemplary instrument that promises to inspire. According to Powers, “The Builder’s Edition concept is meant to be an expression of Taylor’s instrument-building imagination.” And what an incredible imagination it has!
V-class bracing: a sonic revelation
Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that helps shape its sound. Although X-bracing has been standard in acoustic guitars for over a century, it creates an innate conflict between two key elements of a guitar’s sound: volume and sustain. The guitar’s top (its soundboard) contributes to both. The flexibility of the top generates volume (projection), while its stiffness generates sustain. And with X-braced guitar tops, here’s where the trade-off comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa).
V-class bracing changes all that. With Taylor’s V-class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible — for more volume and sustain. V-class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and, hence, sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It’s the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation — not only producing notes that are louder and with longer sustain, but are also more in tune with each other. Guitarists at Sweetwater are gobsmacked. But don’t take our word for it — pick up the superb Taylor 912ce Builder’s Edition and experience it for yourself!
Grand Concert body style: perfect for tracking
Want an acoustic-electric guitar that’s perfect for tracking? Taylor’s Grand Concert body style gives you clarity and balanced tone that sits beautifully in thicker arrangements where a larger-bodied acoustic would take up too much sonic real estate. The Grand Concert Custom’s smaller Grand Concert body and tapered waist not only make it the ultimate studio and stage guitar, but its short scale and lighter string tension also make it easier to play. The guitarists here at Sweetwater have enjoyed tremendous success with Grand Concert–shaped Taylors both onstage and in the studio — they’re great-sounding guitars!
A classic tonewood combination
Nothing beats the sound of rosewood topped with spruce. As a top tonewood, Lutz spruce offers a combination of strength and elasticity that delivers a broad dynamic range with crisp articulation that’s ideal for a wide range of playing styles, from delicate fingerpicking to aggressive flatpicked strumming. Used for the back and sides of the 912ce, Indian rosewood’s extended frequency range and rich, musical tonality have elevated it to premium status among tonewoods. Its potent low end can serve up a throaty growl, while sparkling treble notes ring out with bell-like clarity. Slightly scooped in the midrange (as compared with mahogany), rosewood acoustic guitars are perfect for solo performance, vocal accompaniment, and tracking in sparser arrangements.
Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics
If you play plugged in, then you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your 912ce. The key to this fantastic system is the three-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it’s positioned and how it’s integrated into the 912ce’s saddle, the ES2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls lets you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet phase switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.
Taylor 912ce Builder’s Edition Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- Premium Builder’s Edition acoustic-electric with deluxe appointments
- Grand Concert body delivers a balanced, focused tone
- Indian rosewood back and sides and Lutz spruce top
- Taylor V-Class bracing
- Chamfered body and fretboard edges
- Curve Wing bridge and Gotoh tuners
- Taylor Expression System 2 electronics
