The body of the AD17E Blacktop is made of solid spruce front and solid ovangkol back and sides. The patented V-Class ribbing improves the guitar's performance in three aspects - increasing the instrument's volume, extending sustain and improving intonation.
The mahogany neck is glued to a eucalyptus fingerboard. The same material is also used for the headstock and headplate. Orientation on the fingerboard surface is facilitated by positional dots made of imitation mother-of-pearl. The strings are mounted in the company's nickel mechanics. The nice workmanship is accentuated by the maple rosette and black pickguard.
The guitar is equipped with high-quality company electronics. Taylor Expression System 2 uses three specially designed independent piezo pickups located behind the fingerboard. Unlike conventional pickups, they do not sense the up and down movement of the board, but the natural back and forth vibration of the fingerboard. This makes the sound much more natural, colourful and pleasing, and more responsive to the dynamics of your playing. At the same time, the new preamp makes the signal 25% stronger. Of course, feedback is eliminated and you can adjust the volume, bass and treble.
The instrument comes in a soft case (Aerocase).
Compared to the modern acoustic sound of Taylor guitars, Grand Pacific instruments offer a wide warm sound across the entire frequency range with musical cleaner bass that also doesn't stand out at the expense of other frequencies. Unlike standard Dreadnought models, they are not so musically tied to a particular sound and playing style - combining the power and character of bluegrass guitars with the pure tone and playing comfort that songwriters and guitarists who prefer fingerstyle playing will appreciate.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Matte Black
- Colour: Black
- Surface Treatment: Matte
- Type: Grand Pacific
- Cutaway: No
- Body Construction: All Solid
- Top/Face: Spruce, Solid
- Back Plate: Ovangkol, Solid
- Sides/Ribs: Ovangkol, Solid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 648 mm
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 44.5 mm
- Fingerboard: Eucalyptus
- Nut: Not specified by the manufacturer
- Pickup: Yes
- Pickup Type: Piezo
- Model electronics: Taylor Expression System 2
- Controls: Volume, Bass, Treble
- Integrated Tuner: No
- Tuning Machines: Taylor
- Hardware: Nickel
- Hard Case: Yes
- Case: No
- Strings: D’Addario Coated Phosphor Bronze - Medium
- Country of Production: USA