Taylor BT1e Baby Taylor Acoustic Guitar
Sitka Spruce Top | Layered Walnut Back and Sides | Hard Rock Maple Neck | Ebony Fretboard | ES-B Electronics | Gig Bag Case
The Baby Taylor helped launch an entire category of three-quarter-scale and travel-size acoustic guitars, and the original remains the standard for those seeking a portable instrument that can still produce rich acoustic tone. This model (BT1e) sports a solid spruce top that produces a punchy, clear tone that's perfect for solo practice sessions, working through songwriting ideas or even playing with friends. On-board ES-B electronics make it easy to plug in and play through an amp, and the slender, comfortable neck design provides a smooth feel for your fretting hand. Baby Taylor models ship with a lightweight gig bag.
- Comfortable, compact three-quarter-size guitar
- Solid spruce top yields impressive volume and tone
- Slender neck design makes for relaxed fretting
- Includes ES-B pickup with built-in digital tuner
- Comes with a Taylor gig bag for portability
FEATURES
Solid-Wood Sound. Budget-Friendly Price.
With the sophisticated sound that comes from solid tonewoods, a slender neck and a beautiful finish treatment, this Grand Auditorium offers pro-level appeal at a great value.
Baby Body: A ¾-size Dreadnought that's big on tone.
A ¾-scale Dreadnought, the Baby Taylor is designed to yield a ton of volume for its small size. A layered sapele back is pressed into a slight arch, providing strength and helping produce the Baby’s full, rich tone. It’s also remarkably versatile for special applications, whether played in alternate tunings or high-strung; with a capo or a slide. And it’s the perfect travel companion or starter guitar for young kids.
Taylor’s ¾-size mini-Dreadnought helped spawn the travel guitar market with a well-crafted design that blends musicality and playability. Its small size also makes it a great starter guitar for kids and an ultra-compact songwriting guitar, and adds a unique acoustic flavor to a music mix.
Baby Body Specifications: Body Length: 15 3/4" / Body Width: 12 1/2" / Body Depth: 3 3/8"
Layered Walnut Body Wood: Taylor's layered wood construction features three wood layers: a middle core of poplar with a thinner layer on each side. Layered walnut’s rich brown hues lend a pleasing aesthetic warmth to the guitars that showcase it.
Sound: Taylor uses layered woods for the back and sides of some of Taylor's guitars for their blend of sound quality, durability, and affordability. Layered wood construction also enables Taylor to preserve tonewood resources. Although layered wood guitars won’t yield quite the same level of tonal complexity as an all-solid guitar, all are paired with a solid wood top to produce a rich, responsive voice that will continue to improve with time and extended play. Layered walnut provides a strong backbone for Taylor's 100 Series, adding subtle touches of high-end sparkle together with midrange presence. An outer layer of walnut is overlaid onto a poplar core (with a layer of sapele on the other side). The layering process also allows Taylor to bend an arch into the back for extra strength and produces a durable that travels well.
Sitka Spruce Top Wood: As a guitar soundboard, or top, Sitka spruce is the tonewood standard of the modern era. It’s used on 85-90 percent of the guitars that Taylor makes. Its combination of strength and elasticity translates into a broad dynamic range, yielding crisp articulation and allowing for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking. Sitka spruce is Bob Taylor’s personal favorite for an all-around great guitar.
Origin: Canada
Goes Well With: All styles of guitars and players.
ES-B™ Acoustic Electronics: This version of Taylor's ES-B electronics incorporates Taylor’s Expression System® 2 piezo design elements and features a multifunctional onboard preamp with a built-in digital chromatic tuner and active tone-shaping EQ control. The preamp/tuner unit features an LED display for tuning and low battery indication, along with a Volume control and 3-band EQ. The preamp/tuner is powered by a 9v battery. With an alkaline battery, battery life expectancy when using the preamp only is over 500 hours, and when using the tuner is over 50 hours. Plugging in the guitar will activate the battery. A low battery indicator on the LED display (located on the preamp circuit board) will light up when the battery reaches 4.5 volts.
SPECIFICATIONS
General
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Electronics: ES-B
- Case/Bag: Gig Bag
Body
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Back Configuration: Layered
- Body Bindin: None
- Armrest: No
- Top Finish: Varnish
- Back/Side Finish: Varnish
Neck
- Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple
- Fretboard Wood: Ebony
- Fretboard Inlay: 4mm Dots
- Fretboard Binding: None
- Neck Finish: Varnish
Peghead
- Scale Length: 22-3/4"
- Peghead Inlay: None
- Peghead Type: Standard
- Peghead Binding: None
Other
- Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Nut & Saddle: Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins: Black
- Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
- Pickguard: None
- Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome
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