Taylor 114ce Grand Auditorium
This instrument is discontinued

A serious performers instrument, the Taylor 114ce offers a huge amount of versatility and full-bodied sound at a terrific price point. Using Taylors famous electronics and build quality, with premium level woods and design elements, its an impressive gigging/studio guitar, but also great for general strumming and practice.

The brand new 100 Series Acoustic and Electro-Acoustic guitars from Taylor offers a Solid Sitka Spruce top for a bright, vibrant sound, available in Dreadnought and Grand Auditorium shapes, along with cutaway and Taylor electronics options. The 100 Series is Taylors entry level range of instruments with premium woods and build quality.

The Taylor 114ce is a superb quality Cutaway Electro-Acoustic guitar in the Grand Auditorium body shape, with Laminated Sapele back and sides, Solid Sitka Spruce Top and ES-T Taylor pickup and pre-amp system. Delivering a fantastic feel with a Tropical American Mahogany neck and Ebony fretboard this is an excellent choice for the performing musician, or as a studio/home guitar. The Taylor 114ce has a rich tone, with a low action and thin neck for serious playability.

Compromising absolutely nothing at this level, the 114ce Electro-Acoustic embodies the Taylor tradition of tone and playability. Extras include a gigbag, a left handed variant for the same price (call for details) and a 12 YEAR WARRANTY with Taylor!

Grand Auditorium Body Shape

In many respects the Grand Auditorium represents Taylor`s quintessential body style. It embodies Bob Taylor`s design sensibility in the purest sense and has come to define the sound of a modern acoustic guitar.

Bob first introduced the Grand Auditorium shape in 1994, a decade after the Grand Concert, in commemoration of the company`s 20th anniversary. The Grand Auditorium found the sweet spot between a Dreadnought - known for robust flatpicking and rhythmic strumming - and Grand Concert - designed with fingerstylists in mind - to give players the best of both worlds and then some. With a body size that was bigger than the Grand Concert, it produced a more powerful voice, particularly in the low-end, yet also had a bright, bell-like chime on the treble side and a well-defined midrange that helped maintain the balance and clarity.

The Grand Auditorium shape spoke to modern players because it gave them a level of versatility that many of them had long craved. Session players and recording engineers from Nashville`s country scene to the rock world discovered how well a Grand Auditorium fit into a mix without being too `boomy`. Many producers would (and still do) keep a Grand Auditorium in the studio as their go-to guitar because they knew how well it tracked, especially alongside a bass guitar and other instruments in the mix. It`s also been a reliable tool for performing sidemen over the years.

For those of us who play recreationally, the Grand Auditorium is a fantastic all-purpose guitar. It can yield a full voice for light strummers and give fingerpickers a little extra dynamic range. If you can only pick one guitar, the Grand Auditorium body shape will suit you well.