Taylor 614ce Grand Auditorium (ES-T System)
This instrument is discontinued

The main quality of Big Leaf Maple wood - besides its bright, clear tone - is its ability to cut through on stage or in a mix. As a result, you'll find many 600 Series guitars in live performance or studio situations, easily able to hold their own with the rest of the band. Visually irresistible in the Honey finish, this is a guitar for all occasions.

The bold sounds of Big Leaf maple and Sitka spruce are enhanced by Taylors Grand Auditorium body design in this outstanding Electro-Acoustic guitar, ensuring quality tone whether its amplified or not. Particularly well-received by the fingerpickers for its warm tones, it will also respond well to general strumming-style, delivering shimmering tone.

The Expression System is a top-end magnetic pickup, that will faithfully reproduce all the subtleties and nuances of your playing through an amplifier. The Taylor 614ce includes a deluxe hardshell case, a left handed variant no additional charge (call for details) and a 12 YEAR WARRANTY with Taylor!

Grand Auditorium Body Shape

In many respects the Grand Auditorium represents Taylor`s quintessential body style. It embodies Bob Taylor`s design sensibility in the purest sense and has come to define the sound of a modern acoustic guitar.

Bob first introduced the Grand Auditorium shape in 1994, a decade after the Grand Concert, in commemoration of the company`s 20th anniversary. The Grand Auditorium found the sweet spot between a Dreadnought - known for robust flatpicking and rhythmic strumming - and Grand Concert - designed with fingerstylists in mind - to give players the best of both worlds and then some. With a body size that was bigger than the Grand Concert, it produced a more powerful voice, particularly in the low-end, yet also had a bright, bell-like chime on the treble side and a well-defined midrange that helped maintain the balance and clarity.

The Grand Auditorium shape spoke to modern players because it gave them a level of versatility that many of them had long craved. Session players and recording engineers from Nashville`s country scene to the rock world discovered how well a Grand Auditorium fit into a mix without being too `boomy`. Many producers would (and still do) keep a Grand Auditorium in the studio as their go-to guitar because they knew how well it tracked, especially alongside a bass guitar and other instruments in the mix. It`s also been a reliable tool for performing sidemen over the years.

For those of us who play recreationally, the Grand Auditorium is a fantastic all-purpose guitar. It can yield a full voice for light strummers and give fingerpickers a little extra dynamic range. If you can only pick one guitar, the Grand Auditorium body shape will suit you well.