Description
The GS Mini-e Koa brings the vibrant sound and organic beauty of Hawaiian koa to Taylor’s ultra-popular reduced-scale acoustic guitar. The GS Mini’s compact proportions make it a great choice for players who take their music on the road, and with a solid koa top, this model serves up a rich, bold sound that punches well above its weight for a smaller guitar. The built-in ES-B pickup offers clear, natural amplified tone and includes a digital tuner with an easy-to-read LED display. The GS Mini-e Koa ships with a structured gig bag.
GS Mini
A scaled-down GS that’s anything but small.
- Scaled-down Grand Symphony body
- Great for all playing styles
- Considered a modern-day parlor guitar
Layered Koa
Beautifully figured and durable, layered koa provides attractive visuals and tone at an accessible price.
Taylor’s layered backs and sides incorporate three layers of wood, featuring a middle core of poplar with a veneer on each side. While layered woods won’t produce quite as complex a sound as solid woods, they allow us to blend exotic looks with climate-resilient construction.
Hawaiian Koa
A koa top’s visual beauty is instantly inspiring, while its sonic rewards unfold over time, as warm, sweet overtones gradually emerge.
As a tropical hardwood, a koa top will initially project a bright and focused tone, especially together with koa back and sides, but as it’s played, it matures into an increasingly warm, rich, sweet sound with healthy overtone “bloom,” especially in the midrange. A common mistake is when a “bright” player buys a koa-top guitar in part for its visual beauty, finds it to be too bright, and doesn’t play it enough to allow the wood to develop its resonant tone.
ES-B
The onboard pickup and preamp features a built-in tuner and 3-band equalizer
This version of our ES-B electronics incorporates Taylor’s Expression System® 2 piezo design elements and features a multifunctional onboard preamp with a built-in digital chromatic tuner and active tone-shaping EQ control. The preamp/tuner unit features an LED display for tuning and low battery indication, along with a Volume control and 3-band EQ. The preamp/tuner is powered by a 9v battery. With an alkaline battery, battery life expectancy when using the preamp only is over 500 hours, and when using the tuner is over 50 hours. Plugging in the guitar will activate the battery. A low battery indicator on the LED display (located on the preamp circuit board) will light up when the battery reaches 4.5 volts.
Specifications
- Scale Length: 23-1/2″
- Pickguard: None
- Tuners: Taylor Chrome
- Strings: Phosphor Bronze Medium
- Body Width: 14 3/8″
- Nut & Saddle: Nubone Nut, Micarta Saddle
- Truss Rod Cover: Black Plastic
- Number of Frets: 20
- Case: Structured Gig Bag
- Body Length: 17 5/8″
- Body Depth: 4 7/16″
- Binding Edge Treatment: None
- Back Config: Layered Koa
- Rosette Size: Three Ring
- Back/Side Finish: Varnish
- Backstrap Wood: None
- Stain/Sunburst: None
- Armrest: No
- Top Finish: Varnish
- Backstrap Finish: None
- Bridge Inlay: None
- Armrest Binding: None
- Rosette Material: Plastic
- Wedge: None
- Neck Width: 1-11/16″
- Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment: None
- Type of Neck Joint: Taylor Neck
- Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Heel Length: 3″
- Fretboard Inlay: 4mm Dot Italian Acrylic
- Heel Cap Binding: Black
- Neck/Heel: Sapele
- Neck Finish: Varnish
- Peghead Type: Standard
- Headstock Overlay: Copafera
- Peghead Logo: Printed on Headstock Overlay
- Peghead Binding: None
- Peghead Inlay: None
- Bridge Pins: Black
- Fingerboard Ext: None
- Buttons: Chrome
- Edge Trim: None
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