Taylor TSBTe Taylor Swift Baby Taylor Guitar

Description

6-String, Travel/Small Body | Sitka Spruce Top | Layered Sapele Back and Sides | Mahogany or Maple Neck | Ebony or Eucalyptus (based on availability) Fretboard | ES-B Electronics | Non-cutaway | Gig Bag Case

Inspired by Taylor Swift’s memories of writing songs on her Baby Taylor, the Taylor Swift Baby Taylor (TSBTe) is a three-quarter-size acoustic guitar that’s especially suited to young players and aspiring tunesmiths. This model’s solid spruce top serves up a balanced, clear sound, and the slender neck and fretboard offer an accommodating feel for new budding players. With the built-in ES-B acoustic pickup and digital tuner, you’re all set to plug in and play through an amplifier. The custom rosette was created in collaboration with Taylor Swift herself, and features her signature along with a delicate floral design custom-printed on the top. The TSBTe comes with a gig bag for transport.

• Custom-printed Taylor Swift art with her signature
• Three-quarter size is great for young players
• Solid spruce top for punchy, clear acoustic tone
• Includes ES-B electronics with digital tuner
• Comes with gig bag for storage and protection

FEATURES

Baby Taylor Body: A -scale Dreadnought, the Baby Taylor is designed to yield a ton of volume for its small size. A layered sapele back is pressed into a slight arch, providing strength and helping produce the Babys full, rich tone. Its also remarkably versatile for special applications, whether played in alternate tunings or high-strung; with a capo or a slide. And its the perfect travel companion or starter guitar for young kids.

Taylors -size mini-Dreadnought helped spawn the travel guitar market with a well-crafted design that blends musicality and playability. Its small size also makes it a great starter guitar for kids and an ultra-compact songwriting guitar, and adds a unique acoustic flavor to a music mix.

Baby Taylor Body Specifications: Body Length: 15 3/4″ / Body Width: 12 1/2″ / Body Depth: 3 3/8″

Layered Sapele Body Wood: Taylors layered backs and sides incorporate three layers of wood, featuring a middle core of poplar with a veneer on each side. While layered woods wont produce quite as complex a sound as solid woods, they allow Taylor to blend exotic looks with climate-resilient construction.

Sound: While the rich tones of solid wood remain unmatched, a layered wood construction can yield great sound in a beautiful, durable and affordable instrument. Such is the case with layered sapele, in which Taylor uses interior and exterior veneers of sapele with a core layer of poplar between them. One of the benefits of layered wood for guitars is extra resilience in the face of fluctuating humidity conditions. This comes in handy for guitars like the GS Mini and Baby Taylor models, which are travel-friendly guitars that may be more directly exposed to different environments. All Taylor layered-wood models feature a solid wood top to optimize the tonal response.

Sitka Spruce Top Wood: As a guitar soundboard, or top, Sitka spruce is the tonewood standard of the modern era. Its used on 85-90 percent of the guitars that Taylor makes. Its combination of strength and elasticity translates into a broad dynamic range, yielding crisp articulation and allowing for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking. Sitka spruce is Bob Taylors personal favorite for an all-around great guitar.

Origin: Canada

Goes Well With: All styles of guitars and players.

ES-B Acoustic Electronics: This version of Taylor’s ES-B electronics incorporates Taylors Expression System 2 piezo design elements and features a multifunctional onboard preamp with a built-in digital chromatic tuner and active tone-shaping EQ control. The preamp/tuner unit features an LED display for tuning and low battery indication, along with a Volume control and 3-band EQ. The preamp/tuner is powered by a 9v battery. With an alkaline battery, battery life expectancy when using the preamp only is over 500 hours, and when using the tuner is over 50 hours. Plugging in the guitar will activate the battery. A low battery indicator on the LED display (located on the preamp circuit board) will light up when the battery reaches 4.5 volts.

SPECIFICATIONS

General

• Orientation: Right Handed
• Cutaway: Non-cutaway
• Electronics: ES-B
• Case/Bag: Gig Bag

Body

• Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
• Back Configuration: Laminate
• Body Binding: None
• Armrest: No
• Top Finish: Varnish
• Back/Side Finish: Varnish

Neck

• Neck Wood: Mahogany or Maple
• Fretboard Wood: Ebony or Eucalyptus (based on availability)
• Fretboard Inlay: 4mm Dot Italian Acrylic
• Fretboard Binding: None
• Neck Finish: Varnish

Peghead

• Scale Length: 22-3/4″
• Peghead Inlay: None
• Peghead Type: Standard
• Peghead Binding: None
• Peghead Finish: None

Other

• Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle: Nubone Nut, Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins: Black
• Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 – .053)
• Pickguard: None
• Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome