Used Taylor 522ce 12 Fret Grand Concert Acoustic Electric Guitar Slotted Headstock with Original Case 2020
$2,299.00
1 in stock
Up for sale is a used Taylor 522ce 12 fret Grand Concert acoustic electric guitar. This one was just give a once over here in our shop and everything is in great shape. The electronics all work as they should. It comes with a Taylor case. This one was made in the USA in 2020, serial number 1209140087. Check out the pictures or come see it in person at Metro Gnome Music.
Combining tasteful aesthetics, tone-enhancing details, and amazing value, Taylor’s 500 Series guitars are incredibly popular. The richly grained tropical mahogany body of the 522ce 12-fret Grand Concert V-Class acoustic-electric delivers a delicate, beautifully nuanced sound with punchy midrange focus and clear treble — a sound forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing and amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. As your eyes drink in this instrument’s understated elegance, your hands will savor its flawless playability and your ears will revel in its rich, organic tone. Taylor’s 522ce 12-fret Grand Concert V-Class is a feast for the senses.
Ideal for fingerstyle and tracking
For fingerstyle and tracking, guitar gurus favor Taylor’s Grand Concert body style, which gives you clarity and balanced tone that lends itself to layering with other instruments in thicker arrangements where a larger-bodied acoustic would take up too much sonic real estate. The 12-fret neck join gives this instrument an easy, relaxed handfeel, while the shifted bridge location dials up midrange assertiveness. This guitar’s smaller Grand Concert body and tapered waist not only make it a great studio and stage guitar, but its short scale and lighter string tension also make it easier to play — perfect for younger players with small hands. It also makes for a more efficient design; the smaller body is inherently stronger, which enables it to be more lightly braced, making it easier to set the strings in motion.
V-Class bracing: a sonic revelation
Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that helps shape its sound. Although X-bracing has been standard in acoustic guitars for over a century, it creates an innate conflict between two key elements of a guitar’s sound: volume and sustain. The guitar’s top (its soundboard) contributes to both. The flexibility of the top generates volume (projection), while its stiffness generates sustain. And with X-braced guitar tops, here’s where the trade-off comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that.
With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible, for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and hence sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It’s the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation by producing notes that are not only louder and have longer sustain, but they’re also more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience it for yourself.
Exceptional tonewoods deliver timeless tone
There’s just something about an all-mahogany guitar. As a back and side tonewood, mahogany generally serves up a focused sound with a full midrange. A mahogany top adds a natural compression that helps produce beautifully balanced articulation across the tonal range. “Hogs” typically respond with composure to energetic strumming and tend to sit pretty in a thick arrangement without needing to be shoehorned into the track through extensive processing. In the 522ce, these traditional hog attributes are married to Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing, which gives this small-bodied guitar surprising punch and presence that belies its diminutive size.
Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics
If you play plugged in, then you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your 522ce 12-fret. The key to this fantastic system is the 3-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it’s positioned and how it’s integrated into the guitar’s saddle, the ES2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls lets you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet polarity switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.
Taylor 522ce 12-fret Grand Concert V-Class Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- Tropical mahogany top, back, and sides; gloss finish
- V-Class top bracing
- Tortoise binding
- Tropical mahogany neck, Standard profile, satin finish
- West African ebony fingerboard, 15″ radius, Century inlays
- West African ebony bridge and pins; Micarta saddle
- 1.75″ TUSQ nut; Taylor slotted tuners
- 24.875″ scale length; 18 frets
- Taylor ES2 electronics
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