Taylor 714ce Grand Auditorium ES2
This instrument is discontinued

The Taylor 714ce Grand Auditorium is a fantastic guitar blending the full bodied tones of Indian Rosewood back and sides with a solid cedar top. Favoured by fingerstyle players with its venetian cutaway and Taylor Expression ES2 pick-up, the 714ce is a timeless statement of taste and tone.

The Taylor 714ce boasts a Solid Western Red Cedar top; the quality of the wood offering punch and clarity, making this guitar a fingerstyle workhorse. Strumming will produce shimmering, rich open tones, so whatever style you play, and whatever level youre at, the 714 is sure to please.

Extras include a deluxe hardshell case, 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.