In this video, Sam's back looking at one of our favourite travel guitars, the Taylor GS Mini-E, this time with Walnut back and sides. Check it out here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/taylor-gs-mini-e-walnut-electro-acoustic-guitar
If you’ve not played one before, the GS Minis are a scaled down version of Taylor’s Grand Symphony design with a compact, 23 1/2” scale length. This make’s them incredibly comfortable to play, without feeling too small and fiddly, and they sound like a much bigger guitar thanks to their solid tops and curved back design. Size-wise, they’re pretty much bang in-between a standard full size acoustic and other travel guitars such as the Baby Taylor or Little Martin.
This particular model features a solid sitka spruce top which has internal relief routing to allowing it to resonate as freely as possible, and layered walnut back and sides, so that’s a veneer of walnut sandwiching a core of poplar. The Walnut looks pretty cool and unique, brings a nice woody low end to the tone, and as it’s a laminate construction, it’s nice and tough to take on your travels.
The guitar's satin finish neck is made from Sapele, it’s lovely and smooth to play with quite a slim feel to it, and that’s topped off with a 20 fret ebony fingerboard with mini dot inlays. Up on the headstock there’s 6 high quality Taylor chrome tuners and a nu-bone nut, and down at the ebony bridge there’s a micarta compensated saddle and black bridge pins.
All of the GS mini’s are available as either straight acoustic or electro versions, and if you do go for an electro, these newer models now come fitted with Taylor’s ES-B system. This still incorporates the behind the saddle sensor design of the widely acclaimed Expression 2 system, offering that more organic, livelier sounding acoustic tone when compared to conventional under the saddle piezo pickups, but it now features an onboard chromatic tuner, controls for volume and tone and offers up to 300 hours powered by two 3 volt batteries.
Cosmetically, their’s nothing too flashy about the GS mini, it’s tone and playability definitely speak louder than it looks. The body’s finished in a satin varnish, it is unbound but you get the impression of body binding thanks to a subtle line around the edge, and this matches the simple sound hole rosette which in turn is complimented by a faux tortoise shell pick guard. Finally, the GS Mini is supplied with a high quality Taylor hard foam gig bag.
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