The Taylor GT™ | Andy Powers & Bob Taylor | From the Factory Podcast 

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As a guitar tech for many years and having owned several Taylor guitars in that time, I just hope everyone can appreciate how considerate and thoughtful Andy & Bob are in their approach: always starting with the fundamentals, understanding the reason why things work in a certain way, respecting tradition while constantly pushing forward - those two gentlemen are a rare breed. Hats off to you, Andy & Bob!

Bein honest I currently play a Martin D35 but Taylor is by a long way my favourite guitar brand acoustic or electric. Everything about Bob and Andy just fills me with hope for the future of the guitar. A wonderful company

I just played a GT811E after bringing a Martin HD-28 back. I found out that my 71 year old artheritic shoulder couldn't take the HD-28. But the smaller GT811E feels sooooo good! It feels more like my Gibson LG01 from 1964! But sounds so much better. I may be a buyer soon!

I got the GTE today from Haggerty Music and all I can say is that I was stunned after playing it through my Fishman Loude X Performance Acoustic amp. The tone is unreal - do not be fooled by the size and the flat finish. The sustain is amazing, it goes on forever and the tone, the pitch, the feel of the neck are all perfect. Now, here is what I compared it to: I own 10 guitars, 8 Taylors, a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird and a custom made electric that is as good as any I have played. I also have a Gibson bass, Fender bass, Yamaha bass, and even an acoustic Taylor GS-mini Bass (so that is 9 Taylor guitars - 13 guitars total if you count the bass guitars). The Taylors are a: 514CE, LKSM 6, LKSM-12, Koa T3B, Koa T5, Koa T5Z-12, GA3-12, GS-Mini Bass, and now a GTE. I'm not listing them to brag, but to show that this comment is from someone who owns a lot of very fine guitars and know how they sound and how they play. I live with them and play different ones every day. And this GTE will end up being played the most I think. I can't get over just how damn good it sounds. Thank you Mr. Taylor and Mr. Powers. You nailed it!

Andy and Bob have to be two of the nicest guitar dudes out there. I own 3 Taylor's...and proud...will keep them forever.

Wow, I could listen to Bob and Andy go on about their craft for hours. Super-fascinating insight to luthier art and theory, as well as material discovery, experimentation, and business practicality, all sewn together in the creative process. I’m just re-learning to play guitar later in life and discussions like this one really fire my imagination for what’s possible the more I learn and grow as a player. THANK YOU!

Bob Taylor strikes me as a wonderful Humanist. A man who understands he makes a living from the Forest and is willing to harvest only what is required and sustainable in the longterm. I would add that seeing Andy and Bob together on a podcast is very informative, for me a wonderful insight into top tier woodworking, production, sustainability and new ideas into creating some of the finest Guitars. Look forward to trying one for myself in the near future.

I just bought the guitar today, and the sound and playability is extremely high quality. The guitar is beyond responsive in a way this is almost unbelievable.

“We just buy the car and drive it”. Bob’s brevity and simplicity of language make him an incredible speaker and leader.

I absolutely love the GT. I got a GTe mahogany, and it surprised me how much often and how much long I play this guitar, even if I have other more expensive and famous models. It’s so easy and good and intimate and sound perfect with a resonance that I find “mine”. I wanted another guitar to use at office (covid time… office is in reality my 2nd house), and after failed tentatives with other vendors, I bought another GT, the 811, and ..uaoh… it’s GREAT! The GT is my definitive guitar.

I think guitar builders are some of the most selfless people when it comes to sharing knowledge. I could listen to this type of conversation all day. Good job guys

That scale length story is great. We can easily tune western strings half a tone, one fret lower. When you want that slinky feel, and a guitar that still has standard tuning, you simply build it one fret shorter. Brilliant. It is indeed like playing a capo on the first fret, so you could just as well build yourself a neck that size. Smart thinking!

I love my GTe guys, thanks so much. We went shopping for a Mini but luckily came home with a GT. It feels great and our family will be enjoying it for a long long time.

I just bought a Taylor GT and I couldn’t be happier. I have a GS mini and love it. Then I wished another small body guitar that is a step-up and made of all solid wood. The GT is a perfect fit. I also like the fact that the GT Urban Ash utilizes locally sourced/ reclaimed woods.

I just bought a GTK21e and I feel like I have found the guitar for my life! I am 4'11" with small hands looking for a great sound and a playable instrument. I love this little thing. I feel like I am cheating on my bar chords, and I can actually reach around to dampen the low E string! Thanks so much for bringing me joy! By the way, I own a Taylor 322e, a Taylor 712ce limited, a Taylor GS mini koa, a Collings 02HT, and a McPherson carbon fiber touring guitar.

Extremely fulfilling listening to the deep dive! I have an 812-12 Fret and an older GS Mini. Had pegged the GS Mini Koa-e Plus as my next but secretly wanted a solid-body GS Mini for years...now GT may be the new next! Just wondering if I should wait a bit to see what other versions will come... thank you for your vision, innovation and integrity!

What amazing insight into the Taylor mindset. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and can't wait to get my hands on the new GT!!! Thanks for putting this together.

Great to hear these guys talk about what goes into a guitar.

There is nothing to dislike or not love about the team at Taylor Guitars. I just love them.

I have that exact guitar. It's my main everyday guitar. I love it so much! Thank you for your work.

Fascinating - can't wait for my GTe to arrive. But all I remember is "I shaved my legs for this?" :)

Great explanation on how and why this guitar came to be. Man, these guys KNOW their woods! My "Goldilocks" is in the mail!

My working life is over now but Taylor seems like it's a decent place to work.

Exemplary forward thinking and out-of-the-box concept, fresh and joyful sound. Bravo!

After watching this podcast I just ordered one of this guitars!. Thanks for the incredible content!

You guys are so awesome all I wanted was a all solid wood gs mini with a normal size nut and now my prayers have been answered

Excellent playing Andy, wasn't expecting that.🙂🙂🙂

One Urban Ash to another Urban Ash, our Rosewood and Mahogany friends were right all along when they said, they'll come for you tomorrow.😲😲😲

Love my Taylor GTe mahogany. Thanks Taylor!

I enjoyed the listen and look forward to giving the GT a whirl! Thanks!!

Just pulled my made in El Cajon Big Baby out 2 days ago, still love that guitar it sounds better now than when it was new.

Ive been a Taylor fan since I first played one in 1999, I bought it, it was a 25th anniversary model GA, I still have it and I can’t believe how its improved and soundS just awesome therefore I always compare Taylor guitars to the 25th. Apart from the real expensive models none compare. I look forward to playing a GT because looks the business, can’t wait.

That guitar sounds freakin' amazing!!

Love the GT series just seen the koa to wow 🤩 saving my dollars for the release ! The C bracing is so interesting 🤔 love it

Navigate the lineups. Surfing analogy by Andy was genius. We need more geniuses that perfect their crafts. Flip the burger as best as you can and buy back your time. We have to care about the flip, any flip. Business just wants the flip and the fastest flip. They’re not interested in you until you take interest.

Great conversation, great looking guitar. thanks

I like Taylor explores new woods and commit to them :)

Finally a guitar that fits me! Ordered mine🎉

Amazing sound. Played one today. Waiting for a 411e....

Wonder if you guys really ever read the comments here but I'll give it a shot. On Episode 265 on the sailing site "Sailing into Freedom"on you tube, starting at the one minute mark and ending a little past four I play and sing a song I wrote for the show called Sailing to freedom. I'm playing my Taylor 314CE and it sounds great. So happy with this guitar. We visited your place in California. Awesome set-up. Going to keep an ear out for that GT. might be just the ticket for travel. Thanks guys!

I want want with a sinker redwood top and Macassar ebony back and sides. Yes I know the limited runs just came out recently with these combos, but I would love to hear this smaller body with those woods!

This is amazing!! I love GS minis, can't wait to try this new model. I'm hoping someday they will create a small nylon guitar, what about a nylon gs mini or nylon GT?

I want to win the giveaway contest so bad because I cannot budget this. Lol. Beautiful guitar. They put so much thought into this. Masterful!

Love it ! Hoping for a hog top!

As a regular listener to the audio podcast I just want to ask why did it take so long to get the video version? Need to do this from here on out. Also let Andy play more

Really love the GT

Thanks to Tex for the great "Ask Bob" question. The size description at 14 minutes is very helpful! (It looked bigger with Chris McKee's intro/reveal video on Alamo Guitar's channel, but then again Chris is my height, with perhaps a bit great magnitude in another dimension. ) "Trust Andy" and don't hit your chin on the guitar (as your jaw drops). See you all Tuesday!

Taylor Walks the Walk!

Andy is a guitar wizard

Love my gs mini, the GT looks so awesome.

Is it true the design of the 714ce "V" bracing was messed and that is why you withdrew it, after a short time in the market place. You also came up with the story; how the all body Koa which replaced the Lutz top & rose wood back sides; which was a curious pairing which didn't really work( very bassy) sighting the koa was more affordable, reducing these Koa guitars normally 6k guitar to 3.5k? I wonder how many got stuck with the withdrawn 714ce V?

Wow guys, this sounded phenomenal imo !! I really appreciate the dedication and expertise that you guys put into your instruments and always continue to make them even better ! Also I love how you continue to introduce more and more sustainability into guitars that are built on a very high level. But there is one thing that I'd really like you to reconsider. That is that you have decided to kick out your Jumbo Format guitars a few years ago. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a 2009 Taylor 615 and think it is a wonderful guitar. I love how it resonates and develops it's sound and response character over the years. And also I love it for it's look and how it sits to the body. I'm sure if you together would reissue this model the outcome would be stellar. 👍 Best greetings from Germany, Matthias

Can’t wait to play a GT. If it came with a Cedar top, what wood would be the best sonic match for back and sides?

I've had a 414 for over a year and I just bought a GS mini last month. I love the mini and have pretty much abandoned the 414.

Can playing the GT be more fun than playing my 812ce 12 fret Deluxe? Will these be more available quicker than the BE 816ce ordered in January?

I would like for them to make a cutaway mini guitar

did you notice that the pictures on the taylor website for the GT and GTe are the same guitar with the ES2 nobs photo shopped out? they forgot to photo shop the screws for the pick up... Wood grain patters are the same too. No big deal but just a bit of nerdiness.

I would start a side company if I was Taylor for affordable acoustic guitars. Still Taylor brand because their precise cutting and quality is above par. Nothing over 1,000. 400-800 range. Get rid of pick guards because soon no one will want to use picks, no inlays because all natural is what we’re needing in this world and keep the original bracing. Charge 200-300 for those fancy bracings. I have a big baby Taylor and she sounds just as good. I fingerpick so that’s probably why the sound is more robust compared to using a pick. I paid 500$ and it was made in the Mexico factory. I couldn’t be happier. Plus I have a couple thousand saved up for unexpected events. It really is the player not the TONE wood or the looks that make it sound good. Everyone has a free speech though. That was mine.

I got the Taylor 324 ce and I have fixed it up some 💯more

Can you make this one with nylon strings? What about different top woods?

Thanks

Does anyone know the song Andy Powers is playing? I'd love to learn!

Everybody's in a lot of emotional pain,and a hood acoustic guitar will really lift some spirits if at all possible🤔💞💋💞

I own a baby Taylor , a Big Babu Taylor, a GS Mini, and a 12e-N . Next week I´ll be buying the AD17 black. Why should a buy a GT? Why sould I buy a GT? OMG why shouldn´t buy one? Damm I´m buying it too.

Anybody have any recommendations for a hard shell case for the gt urban ash ?

Waiting for a big baby Taylor or GS mini in tobacco sunburst ❤️

oh one day i will give my GS Mini a GT sibling, just need to save up a bit (a lot)

Dear Andy & Bob. Please make a transacoustic version of the gt with inbuilt chorus reverb & delay. That would be a killer combo & the most fun guitar on the planet. It would be like a dream come true instrument

wow excelete¡¡¡

Can I get my GS mini glossed? Would it change the sound? Also, will standard size tuners work on the mini? I want to dress it up a little more.

I'd buy a Taylor parlor guitar in an instant

Have you tried Nickel Bronze strings on this model ?

Guys, how about a natural finished version. I am thinking that it would resemble a maple body and would allow you to see the grain and the natural beauty of the ash. I just think the stain detracts from the whole approach that you have taken here. An all wood guitar is all about the wood!

Andy and Bob, What do you say to the people that are just haters or custom guitar builders that say v class is crap or a gimmick just to sell more guitars ? I know you make both x and v so is there one you like better or do you like the v class better now? I just bought a 324ce and I’m a little worried that maybe the v class isn’t what I thought it are these people that don’t like it just jealous? Did I get a great sounding guitar? I’m new to guitar only a few years so I’m not expert. Thanks for any thoughts and advice. -Ryan

Bravo ! please make a Koa model !!

#? How long will the C-bracing last compared to X-Bracing?

12 fret slotted GT would be fire

Actually, Bob, the sun is in fact rocketing through space and is definitely moving in orbit in our galaxy. FYI. 🌞😉✨

My favorite thing to do is call hardware stores and ask for wood or sheet rock stretchers 😂

What is that NY Yankees hat doing there. Padres man!!!!!

Ah I wondered what happened when they started talking about a wood stretcher.

how does GT compare to ad12e GC

Aluminum spider gears Andy

54:43 What microphone?

I have a GS Mini and love it ... but for the price of these.....I feel like for that price your better off with a Yamaha FSX5...

WE SMELL HOLES!

Will the GT be American made?

There is a culture of bad criticism whenever a change arrives at what is considered “traditional design” mostly because the old timers MADE it known that their way was the BEST way, but now we understand there are many great ways to do many better things. Unfortunately it will be a few decades to centuries for Taylor and builders like Andy to undo the snobbism permeating in guitar culture, it will take an open mind on the musicians side and an acceptance of NEW design for NEW projects, of course the OLD WILL always be revered, but we can’t hate on Andy and builders like him for discovering that the Sun is the center of the Solar system.

Fretboard Radius???

22:53 Ain't nobody satisfied with IT i guess.😂🤣😂

Is that Joe 90 or just a lookalike???

O.K. NOW PUT A MAHOGANY TOP ON IT!

We need a GTe made in Mexico. $1700 is a lot of money with this screwed up economy.

Andy Powers is Martin Guitars best salesman. V class is sterile sounding, Bring back X bracing

Asymmetrical Sonic Response, what the Fuck.😂🤣😂Take a Hike.

Great video and nice guitar, but I think Andy interrupting Bob at around 3:50 is so impolite. Man, Bob Taylor built this company up from scratch. Hmmm.

If you want bright sound- go for taylor...... if you want mid range with bass?, go for yamaha..... yamaha does have trans acoustic that taylor doesnt have..... even ll ta model can immitate taylor brightness

Think Bob may have to change his shirt after this .All that money he's making is making him sweat.

As always, Taylors are too expensive. I'd pay maybe 900 for this one.