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Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Topic started by: ritchie69 on October 15, 2024, 04:36:44 AM
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https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/legacy-collection
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Did the mothership hear the clamor, LOL!!!
My takeaways:
1. The "classics" are back. Jumbo and original DNs, glad to see em back in original form! I love the Jumbo's aesthetic, though personally prefer the GS in 12string, but man what a classic body shape! And my '08 DN has been my go-to live guit for that many years now, even getting a refret as that's how much I dig this guit!
2. Pickup is a Baggs! Hmmmm, that says a lot IMO. Though I can make the ES2 work live decently well, I am no fan; prefer the 1.3 by far but Taylor scuttled that one but am glad my 1.3 has been flawless and perfect thus far. Not sure how Baggs has voiced --revoiced?-- the Element as that's an old pickup ...maybe it's the UST part from the Anthem SL? I understand why they went with sound-hole controls for the market, but would have personally preferred the BTV controls on the bout like the ES's but that's just me, and likely a minority opinion. We'll see, but it's all a telling move to be sure!
3. Another huge "tell" is the x-bracing. Ummm, not merely one guitar model but an entire line: that choice speaks volumes IMO.
4. Cedar top, yesss!!! Been a long-time fan of what Taylor does with cedar. My old GA7 cedar/rw was a great guit and my then go-to live player. Cedar is all too often dismissed by folks as "fingerstyle" or "lacking headroom" to which I say nonsense! Glad to cedar back as "premium" models and not merely a option.
I hope these do well! Though it's a nitpick, I would have spec'd them all with Gotoh 510s, but I suppose that would not have been a "Legacy" feature. Great move on their part ...hope the sales kill it!
:D
Edward
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Agreed Edward, it seems like they have been listening to the grumbles about the "New Coke" changes. Makes me wonder if sales volume has dropped off. They seemed to go out of their way to alienate the legacy buyers like me. Non-ES2 pickup, X-bracing, and cedar top could make me reconsider getting a 714ce - the one that got away. (By the time I was no longer making house payments and could reasonably afford discretionary extra guitars, they had dropped cedar tops. I ended up with an excellent 414ce instead). I never had a problem with x10 series, having owned a nice 410 and a D-28, but I prefer the GA body over the DN body in general.
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I've never tried a V-braced Taylor and wondered why they changed, since my X-braced one sounded so good. Maybe it wasn't broke…
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Wow! Way to go Taylor!
Scott
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Pretty excited to hear about this. I'm pretty much set for now, but happy for others... and I think I could listen to Bob talk about guitars all day.
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I've been wanting a Taylor "Lemon Grove" series for well over a decade, so I'm definitely part of the target demographic for this! This feels like another chance to get one of those higher-end Taylors I used to stare at in the catalogs and at my local guitar store when I was a poor high school and college student just starting out. I thought I would never buy another Taylor — my USA 210 still punches way above its weight class — but this has me rethinking that position.
I love the 810. No cutaway. No ES knobs. No V-bracing. No Andy Powers signature (nothing against him personally) — just Bob and Kurt. I was always more of a 710 guy aesthetically but hearing Bob talk about his 810 makes me appreciate this one a lot. I kinda wish it was just a straight-up 810 or had something like the LR Baggs HiFi or Lyric, but that's an easy swap if I wanted to go that route.
Gah. I was telling myself I was done getting net new guitars but I'm so tempted by this.
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I understand what the marketing might be telling them. With the demise of the AD series, AD27 flattop being the one i liked the most, people are looking for something new but yet the same. That said though, I could find a nice clean 514c(e) for a grand less and put in my pickup of choice. I did just acquire a 50th Anniversary LTD 314cw that i like very much, and hope it takes the place of the 2018 314ce i had moved along a coupe years ago.