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Strumming Fool

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Re: What's next?
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2022, 06:28:11 PM »
For fingerstyle, your best bet would be a GC. That's what it was primarily designed for. If you miss the sweetness of tone in your 714, you might want to take a look at the 712, the smaller cousin of the 714. Just a suggestion....
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My Taylor Grand Auditoriums:

1997 Cujo14 - old growth cedar/black walnut
2014 K24e - master grade koa
2018 Custom GA - bear claw sitka spruce/mahogany
2019 614 - torrified sitka spruce/flamed maple
2020 714 - lutz spruce/rosewood

ScottSD

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Re: What's next?
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2022, 05:17:35 PM »
I'm also coming from a 714 which I love.  I just picked up a new to me 522E, 12 fret with a slot head (2014).  It's a finger style machine.  I'm flat out amazed at the sound and play-ability.  If you have the opportunity, I'd give one a look.  Happy hunting!

Scott
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Earl

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Re: What's next?
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2022, 09:53:42 AM »
I had always wanted a 714 in rosewood / cedar, but by the time I could actually afford one they had switched to spruce.  So I never did get a 714.  I am a 75% bare nails finger picker.  About four years ago my LGS had a wonderful 522 12 fret that was hard to resist, maybe the best Taylor guitar I have ever played.  I really should have bought it.....
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Taylors:  424-LTD (all koa) and a 114ce that lives with friends in Alaska.  Low maintenance carbon fiber guitars are my "thing" these days, but I will always keep the koa 424.  Several ukulele and bass guitars too. 
*Gone but not forgotten:  a 2001 414ce, 410, 354-LTD twelve string, 314-N, 416-LTD baritone, T5 Classic, 615ce, 2006 GS-K, 1996 (first year) Baby

Edward

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Re: What's next?
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2022, 11:46:22 AM »
A bit OT, but since it was raised I gotta chime in: Cedar/RW is awesome!  And what Taylor does with this combo is stellar.

FWIW, I used to have a GA7e long ago (sold it because I needed funds for a "dream guit" and not because this one was lacking in any way), and played it out for years.  Forget about the old saw about cedar "topping out" or having "limited headroom," let alone the "it's for fingerstyle" mantra.  Cedar is different, to be sure, but it is not a limiting guitar whatsoever as I am most certainly not a fingerstyle player but a strummer and hybrid picker.  Taylor's cedar/rw was never popular, which is great if you want one as the prices reflects that.  Killer under-the-radar guitar IMO!  Just sayin... :D

Edward
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