Taylor 522e 12-Fret V-Class Grand Concert Guitar Shaded Edge Burst
Taylor’s compact Grand Concert 12-fret guitars deliver a uniquely inspiring playing experience. The shorter 12-fret neck and 24-7/8-inch scale length create a slinky handfeel that makes fretting and bending strings easier, and the different bridge placement articulates the top in a way that produces a remarkably powerful voice for a small body. This year’s model features the addition of V-Class bracing, which pairs beautifully with this all-mahogany body for clarity, power, and sustain, along with the focus and warmth inherent to this popular tonewood. The V-Class design also puts the top more in tune with the strings, which improves the intonation across the entire fretboard, eliminating sour notes and creating a more balanced tonal output between fretted and open strings. The hardwood mahogany top also helps smooth out a player’s attack for a more consistent tonal response across the frequency spectrum. Noteworthy aesthetic touches include a shaded edgeburst body and neck, faux tortoise shell binding, a rosette of faux tortoise shell framed by grained ivoroid, and a grained ivoroid Century fretboard inlay. With Taylor’s onboard ES2 pickup and preamp, all your expressive playing nuances will translate into your amplified sound. This Grand Concert guitar ships in a deluxe hardshell case.
- Body type:Grand Concert/OO
- Cutaway:No
- Top wood:Solid Neo-tropical mahogany
- Back and sides:Solid Neo-tropical mahogany
- Bracing pattern:V-Class Grand Concert with relief rout
- Body finish:Gloss
- Orientation:Right handed
- Neck shape:Taylor Standard Profile
- Nut width:1.75" (44.45 mm)
- Fingerboard:Genuine West African ebony
- Neck wood:Neo-tropical mahogany
- Scale length:24.87"
- Number of frets:18
- Neck finish:Satin
- Pickup/preamp:Yes
- Brand:Taylor
- Configuration:Behind-the-saddle transducer with Adjustable Sensors
- Preamp EQ:2-band
- Feedback filter:Phase
- Tuner:No
- Headstock overlay:Genuine West African ebony
- Tuning machines:Taylor nickel slotted with ebony buttons
- Bridge:Genuine West African ebony
- Saddle and nut:Micarta "wave" saddle/Black graphite nut
- Number of strings:6
- Special features:
- Case:Deluxe hardshell case
- Accessories:None
- Country of origin:United States