Taylor 314CE Grand Auditorium

A Grand Auditorium body, Venetian cutaway, and the Taylor Expression System™ add up to a versatile guitar that's perfect for stage and home.

300 Series Overview
The all-solid Taylor experience begins with the updated 300 Series®. Crisp, black binding flanks the satin-finish sapele back and sides and glossy Sitka spruce top, and then continues up the fretboard. The 300 Series is truly the performer’s workhorse, combining technology and craftsmanship with understated style. Top: Sitka Spruce. Back/Sides: Sapele. Cutaway & Expression System Pickup Standard.

Woods Used

Sapele. Back & Sides (Entandrophragma cylindricum)This exceptional, mahogany-like wood grows throughout the tropical rain forests of Nigeria and the Ivory Coast of Africa. Ever since we introduced it in 1998, its legion of fans has grown exponentially. As a tonewood, it's denser and harder than mahogany, so it has a crisper, clearer, brighter, "pop"-ier sound than its more familiar counterpart. Loud and robust, with a lovely ribboned grain, sapele has been used by Spanish guitar makers for many years.

Sitka Spruce - Top. (Picea sitchensis)Sitka Spruce grows in a coastal "pocket" from Northern California to Alaska. This dense, straight-grained wood has the highest strength and elasticity-to-weight ratio among available tonewoods, an attribute that makes it an ideal material not only for our soundboards, but for our internal bracing, as well. Sitka produces a slightly brighter tone than does Engelmann.

Specification

Type/Shape	6-String Grand Auditorium
Back & Sides	Sapele
Top	Sitka Spruce
Soundhole Rosette	Plastic
Neck	Tropical American Mahogany
Fretboard	Ebony
Fretboard Inlay	Large Pearl Dots
Headstock Overlay	Indian Rosewood
Binding	Black
Bridge	Ebony
Nut & Saddle	Tusq
Tuning Machines	Chrome-plated Taylor Tuners
Strings	Elixir® Light Gauge Strings with NANOWEB® Coating
Scale Length	25 1/2 Inches
Truss Rod	Adjustable
Neck Width at Nut	1 3/4 Inches
Number of Frets	20
Fretboard Radius	15 Inches
Bracing	Standard II (Forward Shifted Pattern W/Relief Rout)
Finish	Satin with Gloss Top
Color Options	Natural
Sunburst Options	None
Cutaway	Venetian
Electronics	Taylor Expression System®
Left-Handed	Available; No Charge
Body Width	16 Inches
Body Depth	4 5/8 Inches
Body Length	20 Inches
Overall Length	41 Inches
Case	Taylor Hardshell

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