The Taylor 616ce combines the big, bold Grand Symphony body shape with a maple and spruce tonewood combination for a guitar with plenty of big, bright sound. Taylor's Expression System electronics help to accurately transfer that sound to speakers.

Maple Back and Sides for Syrupy Sweet Tone

The 616ce is constructed with big leaf maple back and sides, a wood you'll notice first from its striking natural flame pattern. Maple gives this guitar a bright sound with fewer overtones than other tonewoods. This makes the 616ce exceptionally clear-sounding and able to cut through the mix.

Resonant Sitka Spruce Top

The 616ce's top is solid Sitka spruce, a proven tonewood versatile enough for strummers and fingerpickers alike. Under the spruce top, Taylor's Standard II bracing pattern moves the X brace closer to the sound hole and uses a relief rout to carve a groove around the top's interior edge. These techniques help to make for a more flexible and resonant top.

Grand Symphony Body Shape: A Strummer's Delight

Crafted in Taylor's Grand Symphony body shape, the 616ce has plenty of surface area for resonant sounds. Though not as big as a jumbo shape, the Grand Symphony's wide lower bout promotes rich bottom-end sounds and makes for pronounced, booming chords. High-fret players, fear not: the Venetian cutaway allows for access to the upper registers.

Tone That Stays True When Plugged In

Taylor designed the all-magnetic Expression System to act more as a microphone than… read more a pickup and avoid coloring a guitar's natural sound. The 616ce features a Dynamic Body Sensor mounted to the soundhole and a Dynamic String Sensor under the fretboard for an electronic system that is discreet sonically and visually. Volume, bass, and treble controls are located unobtrusively on the guitar's shoulder for easy access.

Features:

- Grand Symphony body shape with Venetian cutaway
- Solid Sitka spruce top
- Big leaf maple back and sides
- Hard rock maple neck
- Ebony fretboard
- Forward shifted bracing pattern
- Single ring abalone rosette
- Taylor Expression System electronics
- Gold Taylor tuners
- Hardshell case included

Strum a few chords on the Taylor 616ce and wake up to the bright sound of maple. read less