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The Martin forum is in a tizzy over this CFM bluegrass dreadnaught killer... wait for it... it's actually a new version of a Gibson J45.
The Taylor Grand Pacific, priced around $3k, played by Taylor's master luthier Andy Powers... playing some killer bluegrass:
https://youtu.be/3vHs1V_I-80
Another:
https://youtu.be/u4COv15NAgY
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Those are both pretty sweet. I love Taylor's ability to innovate and bring something just a little different to the table, but still have it be undoubtably part of the Taylor brand.
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I'd like to play one of the Grand Pacifics, just to see. I'm curious, in person, how far they deviate from the Taylor tone.
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There's never been any doubt in my mind that over the past number of years... the Taylor voice has been fine tuned for their ES2 electronics, no woof bass.
What is hugely diff about the GPs is no cutaway and elecs are an add-on option. The second link I put in above, listen for the acoustic tone and bass.. it's there. Andy Powers demo is great but he plays in the mid-range/treble and doesn't bring in the bass in his playing, nothing wrong with that.
I think Taylor stopped building pure acoustic guitars somewhere around 10yrs ago. My 2007 GA5 is a pure acoustic guitar, after that until now I have had almost no interest. They've heard the too bright/midrangie noise and taken action. Got a feeling the GPs are going to be a big success. I'm not in the market but....
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