Taylor GS Mini Sapele Acoustic Guitar w/ Gig Bag

Bananas At Large Inc

Description

6-String, Travel/Small Body | Sitka Spruce Top | Layered Sapele Back and Sides | Tropical Mahogany Neck | Ebony Fretboard | Non-cutaway | Structured Gig Bag Case


Whether you're a new player looking for a comfortable first guitar or an experienced guitarist seeking a travel companion, the GS Mini Sapele offers the ideal combination of portability and rich tone. This model features a solid Sitka spruce top paired with layered sapele back and sides, yielding a bold, clear response that punches far above its weight as a shorter-scale guitar. Players will appreciate the slender neck profile and low action, providing a relaxed feel that's accommodating to players of all skill levels. And with the included gig bag, you're all set to take the GS Mini Sapele on the road for any musical occasion.



  • Compact GS Mini body is perfect for travel and new players

  • Solid spruce top generates big acoustic punch

  • Slender neck profile makes fretting feel easy

  • Scaled-down body that doesn't sacrifice rich sound

  • Includes structured gig bag for storage


FEATURES





GS Mini Mahogany GS Mini Body



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.


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.


GS Mini Body Specifications: Body Width: 14 3/8" / Body Depth: 4 7/16" / Body Length: 17 5/8"








GS Mini Sapele Layered Sapele



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.








314ce Studio SEB Sitka Spruce Top Wood



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.





SPECIFICATIONS





General



  • Orientation: Right Handed

  • Cutaway: Non-cutaway

  • Case/Bag: Structured Gig Bag


Body



  • Top Wood: Sitka Spruce

  • Back Configuration: 2-piece or 4-piece Simons Wedge

  • Body Binding: None

  • Armrest: No

  • Top Finish: Matte

  • Back/Side Finish: Matte


Neck



  • Neck Wood: Tropical Mahogany

  • Fretboard Wood: Ebony

  • Fretboard Inlay: 4mm Dot Italian Acrylic

  • Fretboard Binding: None

  • Neck Finish: Matte




Peghead



  • Scale Length: 23-1/2"

  • Peghead Inlay: None

  • Peghead Type: Paddle - GS Mini

  • Peghead Binding: None

  • Peghead Finish: Matte


Other



  • Bridge: Ebony

  • Nut & Saddle: Nubone Nut, Micarta Saddle

  • Bridge Pins: Black

  • Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Medium (.013 - .056)

  • Pickguard: Black

  • Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome