Taylor GS Mini-e Bass Acoustic Bass - Sapele Top Wood/Sitka Spruce Body
Bass | Sitka Spruce Top | Layered Sapele Back and Sides | Neo-Tropical Mahogany Neck | West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard | ES-B Electronics | Non-cutaway | Gig Bag Case
Perfect for jamming with friends, playing solo or laying down bass tracks in a mix, the Taylor GS Mini-e Bass adds an exciting new sound to any player's toolkit. This compact, portable four-string acoustic bass features a solid spruce top and specially designed nylon-core acoustic bass strings, yielding a punchy, warm bass tone with enough snap and pop to cut through when played with other instruments. And with the included ES-B electronics, built-in digital tuner and lightweight gig bag, the GS Mini-e Bass is as fun as a campfire guitar as it is useful for recording applications—a truly unique musical tool that can go anywhere.
- Super-compact, portable four-string acoustic bass
- Nylon-core strings offer soft, easy fretting feel
- Solid torrefied spruce top offers clear, warm bass tone
- Includes ES-B electronics with built-in digital tuner
- Ships with lightweight gig bag for storage
FEATURES
Big Acoustic Bass Tone in a Portable Package
GS Mini Body: The award-winning GS Mini was designed to be the ultimate musical companion, wherever you go — or stay. Inspired by the big, bold sound of Taylor's GS body shape, the Mini scales things down without skimping on sound, packing a ton of tone into a comfortable travel size and giving you a guitar that's full-voiced and incredibly fun to play. Think of the Mini as a modern-day parlor guitar, perfect for playing around the house but also built to fit an active lifestyle.
Layered Sapele Body Wood: Taylor’s layered backs and sides incorporate three layers of wood, featuring a middle core of poplar with a veneer on each side. While layered woods won’t produce quite as complex a sound as solid woods, they allow Taylor to blend exotic looks with climate-resilient construction.
Sound: While the rich tones of solid wood remain unmatched, a layered wood construction can yield great sound in a beautiful, durable and affordable instrument. Such is the case with layered sapele, in which Taylor uses interior and exterior veneers of sapele with a core layer of poplar between them. One of the benefits of layered wood for guitars is extra resilience in the face of fluctuating humidity conditions. This comes in handy for guitars like the GS Mini and Baby Taylor models, which are travel-friendly guitars that may be more directly exposed to different environments. All Taylor layered-wood models feature a solid wood top to optimize the tonal response.
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
- Number of Strings: 6 String
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
- Bracing System: V-Class Bracing
- Cutaway: Venetian Cutaway
- Color: Tobacco Stain with SEB Top
- Electronics: Expression System® 2
- Case/Bag: Structured Gig Bag
Body
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Back/Side Wood: Sapele
- Rosette: Black Plastic 3 Ring
- Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge
- Body Binding: No Binding; Chamfered Edges
- Armrest: None
- Top Finish: Gloss
- Back/Side Finish: Gloss
Neck
- Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Profile: Standard Carve
- Fretboard Inlay: Faux Pearl 4mm Dots
- Fretboard Binding: None
- Neck Finish: Satin
Peghead
- Nut Width: 1-11/16"
- Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Scale Length: 25-1/2"
- Peghead Inlay: None
- Peghead Type: Paddle
- Peghead Binding: None
- Peghead Finish: Satin
Other
- Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Nut & Saddle: White NuBone Nut, White Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins: Black ABS Plastic
- Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
- Pickguard: Tortoise
- Tuners: Taylor Nickel with Nickel Buttons
- Strap Pin: Nickel
- End Pin: Black
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