Taylor BT1 Baby Taylor Acoustic Guitar - Spruce Top - Walnut Back/Sides
Description
Travel & Small-Body Guitars | Sitka Spruce Top | Layered Walnut Back and Sides | Maple Neck | Ebony Fretboard | Gig Bag Case
The original Baby Taylor (BT1) helped launch the category of the 3/4-scale "travel guitar," offering new learners, young players and guitarists on-the-go an accessible option that doesn't sacrifice tone for size. The BT1 features a solid spruce that yields surprising clarity and volume, giving it enough musical punch to make it a perfect travel companion for songwriting or keeping your skills sharp while you're away from home. The Baby Taylor includes a soft gig bag.
- One of the world's most popular travel-size guitars
- Solid spruce top supplies a clear, punchy tone
- Easy to transport with included gig bag
- Compact body and neck are ideal for young players
- Portable and comfortable without sacrificing tone
FEATURES
Baby Taylor Body: 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 Taylor Body Specifications: Body Length: 15 3/4" / Body Width: 12 1/2" / Body Depth: 3 3/8"
Layered Walnut: 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 their guitars for the layered woods' 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: 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.
SPECIFICATIONS
General
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Case/Bag: Gig Bag
Body
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge
- Body Binding: None
- Armrest: No
- Top Finish: Matte
- Back/Side Finish: Matte
Neck
- Neck Wood: Maple
- Fretboard Wood: Ebony
- Fretboard Inlay: 4mm Dot Italian Acrylic
- Fretboard Binding: None
- Neck Finish: Matte
Peghead
- Scale Length: 22-3/4"
- Peghead Inlay: None
- Peghead Type: Paddle - Baby
- Peghead Binding: None
Other
- Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Nut & Saddle: Nubone Nut, Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins: Black
- Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
- Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome