Electro acoustic guitar with walnut body and cutaway
100 series acoustic guitar in grand auditorium design.
Special model with solid walnut top and laminated walnut body
Forward Shifted Pattern
Cutaway
Maple neck with slim neck profile
Ebony fingerboard with 20 frets and dot inlays
Nubone nut with 42.9-mm width
647.7 mm scale length
Chrome-plated die-cast tuners
Ebony bridge with micarta inlay
Taylor Expression System 2
Matte Shaded-Edgeburst finish
Case included
The Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut comes with gig bag included.
Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut at a glance
With the Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut acoustic guitar, the US manufacturer presents a new special model of the 100 series, which brings a breath of fresh air to the popular series for beginners, advanced players and professionals with new features. This time, the partially solid Grand Auditorium Western guitar comes with a body and even a top made of walnut. The characteristic sound properties of the tonewoods result in a powerful acoustic sound for expressive vocal accompaniment as well as virtuoso solo playing. For live enthusiasts to get their money's worth, the guitar is equipped with the in-house Expression System 2 for professionally amplified playing and comes in a well-padded gig bag which makes storage and transport safe and uncomplicated. The guitar is rounded off by its soft, matte Shaded Edgeburst finish, which displays a warm colour gradient and skillfully showcases the characterful grain of the woods.
With a walnut body and top, the Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut is an absolute first in the 100 Series.
Walnut produces a balanced sound.
Walnut top and body
With laminated back and sides and a solid top made of walnut, the Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut produces a very balanced tone with incisive highs and excellent resonance in the midrange frequencies. Meanwhile, in addition to the solid top, a top bracing in the form of the Forward Shifted Pattern, which significantly improves the vibration behaviour, ensures a high volume of sound.
The Grand Auditorium offers a perfect interplay of sound volume and balance.
Grand Auditorium
The Grand Auditorium design is the ideal compromise between the voluminous Dreadnought and the compact Grand Concert. It combines sonic assertiveness with a high degree of balance and a handy shape. This advantageous design makes the Grand Auditorium one of the most popular guitar shapes, which is also preferred by master guitarists such as Eric Clapton.
Maple is one of the preferred woods for guitar necks.
Comfortably playable maple neck
Maple is one of the most stable woods for guitar necks, which also adds compact bass to the sound. With its nut width of 42.9 mm, the slim neck fits well in the hand and perfectly meets the requirements for powerful strumming and skillful flatpicking. Meanwhile, the velvety ebony fingerboard allows an effortless gliding of the fingering hand over all 20 frets, because of a generous cutaway even the higher positions are freely accessible.
The Expression System 2 takes acoustic guitar amplification to a new level.
Taylor Expression System 2
The Expression System 2 is Taylor's in-house development, and its well-designed operation makes it a masterpiece in acoustic guitar pickup design. Three piezo elements directly pick up the acoustic signals from each pair of strings, transmitting a pristine sound. Volume, bass and treble can be individually adjusted by means of three controls, which are furthermore visually discreetly incorporated into the frame and give the Taylor 124ce Special Edition All Walnut a harmonious overall appearance.
Taylor - The epitome of fine quality
As one of the largest guitar manufacturers, Taylor is truly an authority in the production of first-class instruments. Thus, professional manufacturing by skilled craftsmen results in the very finest products for life, whose value is always maintained - or even increased! This is due in equal part to exquisite tonewoods, which do not warp due to long storage and selected quality and as a result, can hardly be surpassed in terms of high quality. Only spruce, mahogany, cedar or Koa of proven quality are used for the tops. By the way, careful production in combination with the best materials does not only apply to guitars. Guitar bags and all accessories are also of first-class quality. Finally, a conscientious final inspection does not let even the smallest defects pass and ensures absolutely flawless guitars even before shipment.
And that's not all: Taylor also attaches great importance to environmentally conscious actions.
Ebony & Koa: Sustainability at Taylor Guitars.
Uncontrolled clearing of forests and overexploitation lead to massively endangered wood species that can no longer regenerate due to the high pace of extraction. These include ebony and koa in particular, whose dwindling stocks and the resulting ecological problems have prompted a rethink at Taylor Guitars.
Sustainable ebony cultivation in Cameroon
Because ebony's hard, supple texture makes it particularly finger-friendly, it has long been the preferred choice for making fingerboards. Its attractive appearance is also extremely popular for bridges, headstock rests, bridge Pins and Bindings. However, high demand and a thriving black market outstripped stocks, landing ebony on the Red List of Endangered Species in 1994. Moreover, only the jet-black heartwood, which makes up only a fraction of the tree, was used, resulting in a disproportionately large amount of waste in production. In order to protect the forests, Taylor has therefore been working since 2011 with the Crelicam Wood Mill in Yaoundé in Cameroon to promote controlled consumption by processing waste products. Thus, not only black ebony elements are found in Taylor guitars, but also the different coloured, more clearly-grained parts of the tree. This complete recycling is an effective method of preserving stocks and successfully counteracts their dramatic decline and the negative ecological effects that accompany it.
"We need to use the ebony that the forest gives us" - Bob Taylor
In video: Taylor Guitars - "The State of ebony"
Siglo Tonewoods Project
Koa acacia populations have also suffered severe losses over the last 20 years. Unsustainable forestry as well as overexploitation led to a decline that can only be stopped by proactive action and reforestation. Therefore, Taylor Guitars together with Pacific Rim Tonewoods founded the Siglo Tonewoods project, which aims to rebuild the Hawaiian virgin forest. This is a large cultivation area for koa acacia and other species, which allows the use of koa wood on a controlled scale.