Taylor Builder's Edition 914ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar Kona Edgeburst

An exciting addition to Taylor's Builder��s Edition line, the 914ce Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric guitar achieves stellar acoustic tone, sustain and playability. This Taylor 914ce combines back and sides of Honduran rosewood with a top of beautifully striped sinker redwood, creating a guitar with unparalleled harmonic complexity, piano-like trebles and robust lows. The innovative V-Class bracing optimizes the guitar's response, improving volume, sustain and intonation. Playability gets an upgrade as well, with a comfortably sculpted armrest, contoured body edges, curved bridge and a host of other enticing appointments.

Thoughtfully Curated Tonewoods

The Taylor Builder��s Edition 914ce pairs back and sides of Honduran rosewood with a sinker redwood top, a stunning combination usually reserved for the company's Presentation Series. The Honduran rosewood is denser than Indian rosewood, producing complex harmonics with refined response across the frequencies��warm lows, clear trebles and piano-like clarity. The top features sinker redwood from old-growth logs recovered from Northern California rivers, yielding a woodgrain with dramatic striping. It provides the pleasing warmth and touch sensitivity of cedar, along with enhanced projection and dynamics. Together these rare and resonant tonewoods create a voice with exceptional nuance and presence.

Grand Auditorium Body With V-Class Bracing

This 914ce Grand Auditorium features Taylor's innovative V-Class bracing, which optimizes the 914ce's performance in three key areas: volume, sustain and intonation. By boosting volume and sustain, it enhances the guitar's tonal response and playability. But perhaps most impressively, it improves intonation accuracy across the fingerboard, meaning chords ring out with purer pitches. Contours to the armrest, cutaway and edges maximize comfort. High-end appointments include Hawaiian koa wood purfling with abalone edge trim and a koa/abalone rosette. The hand-sprayed Kona burst, gloss body and satin neck offer understated elegance.

Tonally and Aesthetically Gorgeous Neck

The mahogany neck on the Builder��s Edition 914ce boasts easy playability and added sonic character. With its genuine West African ebony fingerboard, you can feel the exquisite resonance across its 20 frets. Antique gold Gotoh 510 tuning machines and a black graphite nut ensure rock-solid tuning stability.

Amplify Your Tone

The Taylor ES2 pickup system faithfully amplifies the 914ce's nuanced acoustic voice. With sensors positioned behind the saddle, the strings fully contact the bridge for optimized resonance. This enables a wide dynamic range and the most natural amplified tone. Easy-to-use controls let you shape bass, midrange and treble response. On stage or in studio, plug in to hear the 914ce's lush harmonics, clear fundamentals and singing overtones through an amplifier or PA. It's an acoustic-electric experience that will elevate your performances.

For players pursuing a beautiful acoustic-electric with stunning tone, the Taylor Builder��s Edition 914ce is a masterpiece of design. With rare tonewoods, innovative bracing, refined playability and a next-level pickup system, it's a stunning instrument ready to inspire your music making. Step into your local Guitar Center to try out this special Builder��s Edition yourself.