Taylor 818e
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Features
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Back / sides: Rosewood
Bright, clear tones with good sustain -
Top: Spruce
Brighter sound and better projection. -
Fretboard: Ebony
Hard, clear sound quality and long durability. -
Nut width: Medium (43 - 46 mm)
Medium to wide nut width for comfortable gripping and plucking. -
Neck: Mahogany
Warmer sound, less brightness/treble, more sustain.
The Grand Orchestra is Taylor's largest body form and is suitable for powerful strumming. The 818e features Taylor V-Class bracing, which results in higher volume, extended sustain and improved intonation. Rosewood bottom and sides ensure powerful bass and brilliance in the highs. The top made of Sitka spruce ensures the dynamics. Taylor 's own active ES2 dynamic piezo system with bass, treble and volume controls is used as a pickup .
- Body shape: Grand Orchestra
- Construction / acoustic: Fully solid
- Cutaway: No
- Top: Sitka spruce
- Back / sides: Indian Rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fretboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Saddle/cross piece inlay: Black Graphite, Micarta saddle
- Color / finish: Nature
- Finish: Gloss
- Nut width: 44.5mm
- Strings: 6-string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .012 - .053
- Pickup: Taylor New Piezo
- Pre-amp system: Taylor Expression system 2
- Controls: Volume, bass, treble
- V Class Bracing
- Including: Suitcase
- Country of origin: USA
The 800 series is based on a design by Bob Taylor and has been continuously developed. All body shapes are available, the bottom and sides are made of Indian rosewood combined with a Sitka spruce top . The rosette is adorned with a single ring made of abalone with a rosewood border. Taylor also offers a deluxe version that adds a radius armrest to the instrument , although not in the “Grand Orchestra” body shape.
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