Taylor’s top-tier Gold Label Collection now features Grand Pacific models – here’s everything you need to know
After first being introduced at this year’s NAMM Show, Taylor‘s Gold Label Collection is expanding with new Grand Pacific models.
The Grand Pacific models expand on the Gold Label Collection’s “warm, heritage-inspired acoustic flavour”. Rather than the classic Grand Specific design, the Gold Label upgrade boasts a reimagined body shape, 3/8 inch deeper body and a round-shoulder dreadnought to capture a fuller sound and even more low-end power.
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While the deeper body allows for more “lung capacity”, it also has the Gold Label’s signature Fanned V-Class bracing architecture. The combination allows for rich tonal and musical clarity; as the company notes, even the treble notes feel warmer and deeper than the Grand Pacific’s standard model.
“Compared to the Super Auditorium body, the curves and depth of the Grand Pacific produce even more volume and tonal dimension,” Andy Powers, Taylor’s Chief Guitar Designer, President and CEO, explains. “Its voice is earthy, honest and uncomplicated. It’s a reliable acoustic workhorse – both seasoned and soulful.”
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The Gold Label Collection Grand Specific also has Taylor’s Action Control Neck. The neck is featured on all Gold Label guitars, and allowing the tonal benefits of a long-tenon neck joint combined with the ease of instantly being able to tweak string height.
This is possible by using a quarter-inch nut driver on a bolt in the neck block, which can be accessed via the soundhole. It means that no fiddly neck or string removal needs to happen in order to make your adjustments.
“The design serves players by allowing them to adjust their string height for different playing styles, applications or climate conditions as often as they like,” Powers notes.
The new Grand Pacific models come in either mahogany or rosewood, both with torrefied Sitka spruce tops. Grand Pacific Mahogany 500 Series models include the natural Gold Label 517e, Gold Label 517e SB Cream, Gold Label 517e SB Firestripe and Gold Label 517e Blacktop.
Rosewood 700 Series models come in the same colour options, with the all-natural Gold Label 717e, Gold Label 717e SB Cream, Gold Label 717e SB Firestripe and Gold Label 717e Blacktop. As well as this, both the Mahogany and Rosewood Firestripe models can come with firestripe or cream pickguards, depending on your preference.
All models also come with a ‘Crest’ inlay motif in cream on the fretboard, as well as a new headstock inlay. All models boast a West African ebony fretboard and Taylor Nickel tuning machines and come with D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light strings.
The Gold Label Grand Pacific range is available now, with prices ranging from $2,599 to $2,999.
For more information, head to Taylor Guitars.
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