Im a fingerstyle (fingerpicking) guitarist. Which Taylor model would be best-suited for my style of playing?
Certain Taylor models are especially well-suited for specific playing styles, but that doesn’t guarantee that owners will use them for those purposes. A “fingerstyle” guitar – say, a 912ce – sounds wonderful when lightly strummed. A “flatpicker’s” guitar (710, 810, Dan Crary Signature Model) sounds great when fingerpicked, and so on. But, to some extent, a guitar’s body size and bracing pattern do determine its level of performance for specific types of playing. The Grand Concert is an ideal guitar for fingerstyle and recording because it’s smaller (more comfortable), and because its scalloped bracing was designed to produce the “Taylor tone” without the “boominess” of a Dreadnought. The Grand Auditorium is designed to be a strong fingerpicking guitar that also can handle medium strumming. That’s because its braces are narrower; we removed mass from the width of the braces to enable the guitar top to move faster, thus creating a higher component of treble “zing” across the guitar and r
