2022 Taylor 562ce Left-Handed Version 12 String Medium Brown with Shaded Edge Burst

Offered for sale:

Used 2022 Taylor 562ce Left-Handed Version 12-String Acoustic Electric Guitar serial number 1202042011.

This guitar is in excellent condition showing minimal playing time.

This guitar was donated to Hungry For Music, an organization that gets instruments into the hands of underprivileged kids. When they get pro guitars, we sell them and buy student guitars for Hungry For Music to distribute to kids around the country and the world.

The 562ce features a Tropical Mahogany Top with Tropical Mahogany Back and Sides and a Venetian Cutaway. The Tropical Mahogany Neck has a West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard and the guitar is fitted with the Expression System 2 Electronics.

562ce

A 12-string guitar is a great way to experiment with new sounds, and the Taylor 562ce offers rich, sparkling octave-textured tone in a body that's comfortable for virtually any player. Solid mahogany for the top, back and sides serves up a bold midrange response with a warm, woody character, offering just enough natural compression to smooth out an aggressive attack for an impressively balanced sound. V-Class bracing under the hood draws out more of mahogany's natural tonal qualities while adding more volume and sustain, and the Grand Concert body keeps things compact and comfortable whether you play seated or standing. A dark edgeburst finish treatment gives the 562ce a dusky allure. It ships with ES2 electronics and a hardshell case.

Grand Concert

The small-body Grand Concert debuted in 1984 to meet the needs of a new wave of adventurous acoustic fingerstyle players. In contrast to the traditionally darker, boomier voices of bigger body styles like dreadnoughts and jumbos, the GC’s compact size and tapered waist kept the overtones in check. It was also more comfortable to play while sitting down, and the guitar’s slightly wider neck gave players more room for complex fingerings. The GC’s smaller sonic footprint also fit cleanly in a mix with other instruments when tracking in the studio and with a band on stage, making it a useful tool for professional session and side players. Our current generation of GC models continues to accommodate fingerstylists with finger-friendly traits like a shorter 24 7/8-inch scale length, which makes fretting easier and adds a slightly slinkier feel on the strings due to the lighter string tension. If you feel more comfortable with a small body or favor controlled overtones, a Grand Concert is a great option.

The smallest of Taylor’s full-size body shapes. Its compact dimensions make for a physically comfortable guitar with an intimate feel and sound. The smaller footprint keeps the overtones in check, contributing to a focused, articulate sound that’s well-suited for recording and stage work.

Tropical Mahogany

Overview: Mahogany is known for its meaty midrange character, featuring a strong fundamental focus often described as “punchy,” “woody,” or “dry,” because it doesn’t produce a lot of ringing overtones. Mahogany’s earthy voice has been featured on many roots music recordings over the years.

Origin: India/Guatemala

Sound: Mahogany is a good wood to anchor a discussion of tones, as a lot of other wood tones can be described in relation to it. Its essential sonic profile is well represented in the midrange frequencies. Acoustic guitars in general tend to live in the midrange portion of the sound spectrum, but mahogany in particular displays a lot of midrange character. That thick, present midrange sound is sometimes described in guitar circles as meaty, organic or even chewy; wherever a player digs in on the fretboard, they're tapping into the core of the harmonic content of what a guitar produces. Those great midrange frequencies produce overtones that stack up and produce bloom, giving the sound extra girth. When one hears the resulting harmonics, the chewy tone serves up a big mouthful of midrange. As a popular tonewood for many decades, mahogany has been used on scads of old school acoustic recordings, and that sonic heritage carries across various strains of roots music, from blues to folk to slack key.

Goes Well With: A broad range of players and musical styles; people who like a well-balanced tone, nice dynamic range and a healthy serving of overtones. Blues and other rootsy players tend to respond well to mahogany's midrange character. A smaller body mahogany guitar (GC or GA) might appeal to fingerstyle players, whereas more aggressive flatpickers might opt for a mahogany Dreadnought or GS. For versatility, a mahogany GA is a good bet. Because of mahogany's midrange, a player with "dark hands" will tend to sound darker on a mahogany guitar. A bright player will sound slightly less bright.

Expression System 2

The Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) is a revolutionary pickup design that delivers the latest in Taylor’s ongoing innovation in acoustic guitar amplification. The heart of the Expression System 2 is Taylor’s patented behind-the-saddle pickup, which features three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. The location of the sensors enables a more dynamic range of acoustic sound to be captured than ever before. Together with Taylor’s custom-designed “professional audio”-grade preamp, this system produces exceptional amplified tone and responsiveness. On stage through a PA, plugged into your favorite acoustic amplifier, or direct into recording software, the Expression System 2 faithfully conveys the voice of your Taylor guitar.

Behind the ES2 Design: Rethinking the Piezo Pickup

For decades, piezo-electric transducers have been positioned under the saddle of a guitar based on the long-held belief that the string and top vibration cause the saddle to “bounce” up and down. But Taylor’s electronics team, led by developer David Hosler, discovered that the vertical movement is actually heavily restricted, and that the saddle gets “locked down” due to the string tension’s downward pressure. That’s why a traditional under-saddle pickup with piezo-electric crystals often responds with a sound often characterized as thin, brittle, brash or synthetic, especially with more aggressive playing.

The saddle’s natural range of movement as the guitar is being played is actually back and forth like a pendulum. That revelation led Taylor’s design team to relocate the crystals from under the saddle to behind it. The new positioning enables the crystals to respond more naturally to the guitar’s energy as it is transferred through the saddle. Three pickup sensors are installed behind the saddle, through the bridge, with three tiny Allen screws that calibrate the position of the sensors in relation to the saddle.

Like the original Expression System, the ES2 features the same volume and tone control knobs. This makes it plug-and-play friendly both for artists and live sound mixers.

Highlights

Scale Length 2 4-7/8"
Bracing V-Class Bracing
Tuners Taylor Nickel
Body Width 15"
Nut & Saddle Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
Truss Rod Cover Black Plastic
Number of Frets18
Case Taylor Deluxe Hardshell
Body Length 19 1/2"
Body Depth 4 3/8"
GUITAR SPECS:

Body

Binding Edge Treatment: Tortoise

Back Config: 2-piece No Wedge

Rosette Size: Single Ring

Back/Side Finish: Gloss

Stain/Sunburst: Medium Brown Stain with Shaded Edge Burst

Top Finish: Gloss

Rosette Material: Grained Ivoroid/Tortoise/Grained Ivoroid

Neck

Neck Width: 1-7/8"

Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment: West African Crelicam Ebony

Type of Neck Joint: Scarf

Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony

Heel Length: 3-1/4"

Fretboard Inlay: Century

Heel Cap Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony

Neck/Heel: Tropical Mahogany

Neck Finish: Satin

Peghead

Peghead Finish: Gloss

Peghead Type: Standard

Headstock Overlay: West African Crelicam Ebony

Peghead Logo: Grained Ivoroid

Original hard-shell case included.

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