Taylor 812ce Next Generation Grand Concert Acoustic-Electric #6088

The Taylor 812ce, Next Generation takes the 800 Series' rosewood-and-spruce voice and puts it in Taylor's most compact full-scale body, the Grand Concert. A solid Sitka spruce top pairs with solid Indian rosewood back and sides, and Scalloped V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout keeps that combination focused instead of boomy — the shorter 24-7/8" scale and tighter waist trade a little dreadnought-scale volume for a guitar that sits close to the body and responds to a light touch.

That trade-off is exactly what makes the 812ce work for fingerstyle and close-mic recording. Indian rosewood still delivers the deep, complex low end and ringing overtones the 800 Series is known for, but the Grand Concert's smaller air chamber tightens up the bass so single-note runs and Travis-picking patterns stay articulate instead of blurring into the low mids. Strum it hard and the V-Class bracing keeps chords in tune with themselves up the neck; back off to a fingerstyle touch and the guitar rewards it with sustain and a warm, even response across all six strings.

Appointments follow the 800 Series standard: a West African ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock veneer, mother-of-pearl fingerboard and peghead inlay, a green abalone rosette around a bound sound hole, and a full-body gloss finish over the rosewood. The Action Control Neck uses a long-tenon joint that reaches deeper into the body, and the string height adjusts through the soundhole without taking off the strings or the neck. Taylor's Claria pickup system adds a soundhole-mounted Mid-Contour control alongside volume and tone, so the amplified tone can be shaped for a room instead of just turned up. Every 812ce ships under our Dread-Not Guarantee — a 30-day in-home trial and a full year to trade it in for up to 90% credit toward anything else in the store, backed by a free humidity monitoring kit. It is a guitar built for a fingerstyle player or a songwriter who wants 800 Series tone in a body that disappears in the lap.

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