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Celebrate Taylor's 50th with Urban Ironbark Elegance





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What better way to ring in Taylor’s golden anniversary than with a gorgeous Grand Auditorium sporting an unmistakably Taylor tonewood pairing? The 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD flaunts an ultra-responsive sinker redwood top, reclaimed from old-growth logs captured from the depths of Northern California’s rivers. Responsibly sourced via Taylor’s urban wood initiative, the urban ironbark back and sides perfectly complement the airy resonance of the top with a dense, muscular drive ? many of Sweetwater’s tonewood connoisseurs liken urban ironbark to a souped-up twist on traditional rosewood. As befitting a Taylor of any style, the mahogany neck’s fast-playing standard carve and 15-inch-radius ebony fingerboard supply effortless, electric-like playability. And for those looking to make a splash up onstage with this guitar’s vibrant green standard abalone inlays and bountiful binding, the elegant 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD is rounded out with Taylor’s powerhouse ES-2 electronics system. Merging the company’s unerring dedication to environmental sustainability with attention-demanding aesthetics and top-of-the-line tone, the 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD epitomizes Taylor’s utterly distinctive 6-string philosophy.





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Rich, resonant, and responsibly sourced tonewoods





To celebrate Taylor’s half-century reign, the PS14ce Ironbark 50th boasts a master-grade set of top-tier tonewoods. A pair of responsibly sourced Urban Ironbark back and sides ? also known as red ironbark ? provide an exceptionally harmonic-dense response that recalls the tone of rosewood with a firmer, more muscular punch. Topside, a slab of sinker redwood supported by Taylor’s cutting-edge V-Class bracing offers a subtle, dynamic, and thoroughly touch-sensitive feel that rewards even the most tempered pluck or pick with a rush of rich resonance.





Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence





Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 50th Anniversary PS14ce LTD, employs the width and depth of a dreadnought, so it delivers prodigious volume that makes it a “tone cannon” in its own right. However, its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium-bodied acoustic guitars more treble zing, in addition to improved playing comfort and a sleeker look. The PS14ce’s Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note you play, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its V-Class-braced top.





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 tradeoff comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that.





Optimized volume, sustain, and intonation





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 more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience what guitarists at Sweetwater have already discovered.





Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics





If you play plugged in, you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your PS14ce. The key to this fantastic system is the 3-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it’s positioned and how it’s integrated into the guitar’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 let you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet polarity switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.





Taylor 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Taylor 50th-anniversary PS14ce LTD Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Top-of-the-line Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric celebrating Taylor’s 50th anniversary


Sinker redwood top supported by V-Class bracing offers an exceptionally resonant response and elegant, autumnal aesthetic


Urban Ironbark back and sides provide a harmonic-rich punch of rosewood-like richness


Fast-playing mahogany neck in Taylor’s traditional Standard Carve


Sleek 15-inch-radius ebony fingerboard, complete with eye-grabbing green standard abalone Byzantine inlays


Glorious gold Gotoh Luxury tuning machines that brandish a refined floral pattern


Comfortable radiused armrest and deep Venetian cutaway


Taylor’s flagship Grand Auditorium body style serves as a superb do-it-all 6-string design, from hushed fingerstyle to high-energy strumming


Complete with a jaw-dropping array of fine visual appointments, including paua purfling, a Byzantine shell/green standard abalone headstock inlay, and gorgeous binding that runs from the body to the fingerboard extension to the tip of the headstock