Taylor Grand Pacific

New Taylor Shape. New Taylor Sound.

Powered by Taylor’s award-winning V-Class™ bracing, the Grand Pacific is a new round-shoulder dreadnought that introduces a whole new sonic personality to the dreadnought category and the Taylor line. It’s a Taylor like you’ve never heard before. This new series features three models with a few alternate options and colours – The Grand Pacific 317 and 317e, the Builders Edition 517 and 517e in a natural or Wild Honey Burst top and the Builders Editon 717 and 717e in natural or Wild Honey Burst top.

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Grand Pacific 317
Grand Pacific 317e
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517WHB
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517e
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517eWHB
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 717
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 717WHB
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 717e
Grand Pacific Builders Edition 717eWHB

V-Class Bracing Across the Board

In 2018 Taylor designed the groundbreaking V-Class internal bracing system turning traditional bracing methods upside down. This new bracing design creates stability, and enhances tonal depth and sustain. It also assists with keeping the neck perfectly straight and helps to achieve much more accurate intonation. Taylor’s award winning V-Class bracing comes stock on all Grand Pacific models.

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The Grand Pacific 317 and 317e

Built with solid sapele back and sides and a solid Sitka spruce top, the 317 boasts a tonal response that sits comfortably between the dry, focused character of mahogany and the harmonically complex sound of rosewood. The body’s wider waist helps produce a strong bass response, but without the woofiness that can sometimes plague bigger-body guitars. Taylor’s V-Class bracing, tailored for the Grand Pacific body, dials up the power and sustain, along with improved intonation, making this a versatile tool for jamming with other musicians, playing alongside a vocalist, or embarking on solo adventures. The 317e has all the same tonal characteristics but has the added Taylor Expression System 2 acoustic pre-amp installed.

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Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517 and 517e

The Builder’s Edition 517 dramatically expands Taylor’s sonic palette with a new flavor of acoustic tone that may surprise players who are accustom to Taylor’s signature sound. This round-shoulder Grand Pacific resonates with a finely-honed balance of low-end power and clarity across the middle and upper registers. Back and sides of neo-tropical mahogany flavor the sound with dry, woody character, coupling beautifully with the dynamic response of the torrefied Sitka spruce top. The Builder’s Edition stamp means that the 517 is detailed with premium features designed to maximize player comfort. Between its sound and feel, the Builder’s Edition 517 once again raises the bar on the Taylor playing experience.

Model Options: The 517 is offered with either a natural or Wild Honey Burst top, and either with or without Taylor’s Expression System 2 electronics.

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Grand Pacific Builders Edition 717 and 717e

The Builder’s Edition 717 builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts, but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound. The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom. It all adds up to a Taylor like you’ve never seen, heard or felt before.

Model Options: The 717 is offered with either a natural or Wild Honey Burst top, and either with or without Taylor’s Expression System 2 electronics.

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Builder’s Edition Grand Pacific Design Features

Taylor’s Builder’s Edition collection takes the traditional acoustic guitar design and makes it conventional and much more comfortable. The removal of hard edges and the silent satin finish, Taylor has designed a guitar made for players. The Builder’s Edition design features are as follows:

  •  Compound carve neck profile: Designed to complement the way a player’s hand position shifts as it moves up the neck, the profile subtly transitions from a slight V at the nut to a rounded C, with a rounded, ridge less heel.
  • Rolled fret board edges: This is a subtle comfort feature that players will feel on both sides of the neck.
  • Chamfered body edges: The rounded body edges enhance the playing comfort and feature traditional binding.
  • New Curve Wing bridge shape:Rounded edges and other refined contouring update a signature Taylor aesthetic to make the bridge feel more comfortable against the pick hand.
  • Wild Honey Burst top(Silent Satin finish): A careful color application process allows the WHB color to penetrate the wood in a unique way that heightens the aesthetic appeal, artfully showcasing both the torrefied spruce wood grain and the depth in the color. (A natural top is also available.)

All Grand Pacific models (including the 317) also include a new deluxe hard shell guitar case featuring a luxurious exterior with a Western floral pattern that resembles tooled leather

V-Class Bracing: A Tone-Shaping Platform

In 2018, Taylor introduced their patented V-Class bracing, a groundbreaking internal bracing system designed by master guitar designer Andy Powers. V-Class brought an evolution beyond X-bracing (which Powers felt had been pushed to its limits as a voicing framework), enabling Taylor to make fundamental improvements to the sound of an acoustic guitar—namely the ability to produce stronger projection, longer sustain, and more accurate intonation by putting the guitar top more in tune with the strings. More importantly, the flexible V-Class framework gave Taylor a powerful new platform for shaping an acoustic guitar’s tonal character in dramatic new ways. This fueled the creation of the Grand Pacific.

Evolving a Traditional Sound

Andy Powers was inspired to create the Grand Pacific by the bluegrass and other acoustic roots music records he grew up listening to with his dad. Though a lot of that music was created with dreadnought-style guitars, Andy wasn’t interested in simply building another version of an existing dreadnought. Between the subtly rounded contours of the Grand Pacific’s body and the V-Class bracing under the hood, he was able to craft an instrument that could make the kinds of acoustic sounds he heard on those records, while also taming some of the problematic attributes often associated with dreadnought-style guitars. (These sonic issues were typically fixed during the recording/mixing process.) Some of the notable sonic improvements you’ll hear in the Grand Pacific include:

Clear Low-end Power

Andy eliminated the low-end woofiness/muddiness often associated with dreadnought-style guitars. The Grand Pacific produces warm low-end power but with more clarity, which means the bass frequencies are more musical and less problematic for recording and other applications.

Tonal Consistency from Low to High

Some traditional X-braced dreadnoughts create their low-end power at the expense of other frequencies. With the Grand Pacific, you’ll hear smooth, warm, powerful notes consistently across the entire frequency spectrum.

Greater Versatility and All-Around Utility

The Grand Pacific also isn’t musically confined the way a dreadnought can be. It blends the power of a bluegrass guitar with the clarity and playing comfort that singer-songwriters and even finger style players will enjoy. Its all-around utility makes it a fantastic workhorse guitar.