More evidence of Taylor's announcement being about bracing?

[Spyvito]

Originally Posted by noledog

+1...well stated TY

Are you an insider? I would bet you hit it on the nose.

[Spyvito]

Originally Posted by Shoreline Music

Actually, it's going to be the ultimate Disney/Pixar marketing tie-in: Taylor is going to build a guitar that, when strummed, takes you the land of the dead, where you get to hang out with all your ancestors.

It’s been done already.

[DukeX]

Originally Posted by Shoreline Music

Actually, it's going to be the ultimate Disney/Pixar marketing tie-in: Taylor is going to build a guitar that, when strummed, takes you the land of the dead, where you get to hang out with all your ancestors.

If that's the case, I'd rather hang with Jimi, Chet, Hedges...

[JohnW63]

As the old saying goes...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

How can you tell if it's broke, if you don't try to make something better ?

I really don't know what the new thing will be, but I doubt I can talk myself into buy it. New guitars have big price tags. I'll have to wait and see ( and hear ) if I like what ever it is, and then buy it used, somewhere down the road.

[phavriluk]

I think the guitar world has been blessed by Taylor's willingness to experiment and innovate. We've been offered precision, repeatable manufacture of a family of high-quality instruments of consistent quality, performance, and manufacture. And the NT neck has offered a standard of comparison for precision manufacture of the most important wood joint on the instrument.

Sometimes these blessings are a bit hard to digest...

[GrainWave]

Originally Posted by tippy5

So Andy got an idea to remove half of the Martin X bracing to engineer a V brace?

I'm voting for this.

[wooglins]

Originally Posted by GrainWave

I'm voting for this.

Seems logical. RTaylor had the Y brace. Now it moves to the V brace. By the way my R. Taylor with this bracing is fantastic. I do think whatever they announnce will be strongly centered around Andy Powers. I do not think it was a coincidence the current bracing is called ap bracing (advanced performance aka Andy Powers).

[vindibona1]

I won't speculate on the specifics, but if history holds true, it will be something that will be cheaper to make that they can market the heck out of and increase margin while maintaining price. Taylor has had that play in their playbook for years and years.

[wooglins]

Originally Posted by vindibona1

I won't speculate on the specifics, but if history holds true, it will be something that will be cheaper to make that they can market the heck out of and increase margin while maintaining price. Taylor has had that play in their playbook for years and years.

Your 814ce dlx is probably not a great example, that is a very sweet guitar that offers a ton of value.

[Spyvito]

Originally Posted by JohnW63

How can you tell if it's broke, if you don't try to make something better ?



I really don't know what the new thing will be, but I doubt I can talk myself into buy it. New guitars have big price tags. I'll have to wait and see ( and hear ) if I like what ever it is, and then buy it used, somewhere down the road.

You won’t have to wait long. Let me predict “Taylor 2018 NAMM Andy Powers limited edition. Almost new, less than 1 month play, best guitar I’ve ever had, not bonding with it.”

[M Hayden]

Originally Posted by mcduffnw

AMEN to this^^^!!!

I really loved the 1996 to 1999 Taylor guitars...even up to 2004/2005...but the late 90's instruments were really wonderful...so were the Martin guitars of that same time IMO

duff
Be A Player...Not A Polisher

Yup. Have a 2000 312ce and it’s amazing.

I’m curious what the new bracing pattern will sound like and what is gained by its use.

[wooglins]

More goodness.

https://twitter.com/TaylorGuitars/st...75667203170304

https://twitter.com/TaylorGuitars/st...365769216?s=17

[tbeltrans]

It's gonna big BIG...and size matters.

Tony

[ii Cybershot ii]

There is no doubt it's about bracing.

The Zac Brown sound clip sounds exactly like every high-end rosewood/spruce Taylor so clearly this change is super subtle.

Thus, I really don't think this bracing pattern could be "the greatest innovation" Taylor has ever made. There's nothing wrong with bracing currently so they aren't even fixing a problem lol. This is Taylor marketing at it's greatest, but hopefully it's still cool in the end.

[mmasters]

I have a 2016 Taylor 818e and the sound (bracing) is amazing. Not sure what they are doing but I think they may rival Martin in the future.