Taylor Ben Harper Gold Label 512e SE Grand Concert Acoustic-Electric #6029

The Taylor Ben Harper Gold Label 512e SE takes Taylor's Grand Concert body — the smallest, most articulate shape in the Gold Label lineup — and dresses it in Ben Harper's own Shaded Edge Burst top. A solid Sitka spruce top pairs with solid neo-tropical mahogany back and sides, the same tonewood pairing that gives Gold Label its warm, focused voice, just packaged in a smaller, more intimate frame.

Fanned V-Class bracing with a Tonal Rout keeps the Grand Concert's compact body from feeling boxy — sustain holds, and fingerstyle passages stay clear instead of collapsing into mud the way small-bodied guitars sometimes do. The mahogany keeps the low end dry and controlled, so the guitar responds to a light touch and rewards close, detailed picking. This is a guitar built for a player who sits down and plays for themselves as much as for an audience.

Bronze tuning machines and a Honduran rosewood fingerboard, headstock veneer, and bridge dress the Shaded Edge Burst top, with cream crest inlays tying it to the rest of the Gold Label family. Taylor's new Claria Acoustic Pickup System handles the plugged-in side, pairing a redesigned preamp with the guitar's under-saddle sensors for a fuller, more natural low end than older single-source pickups. Every 512e SE ships under our Dread-Not Guarantee — a 30-day in-home trial and a full year to trade it in for 90% credit toward anything else in the store, backed by a free humidity monitoring kit. For a player who wants Gold Label's tone in a smaller, more personal package, the 512e SE is the one to grab off the wall first.

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