Acoustic Guitar
Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
Price: 385 EUR – 700 EUR
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A scaled-down Grand Symphony body for travel and couch playing: a solid tropical mahogany top over layered sapele back and sides, a 23.5-inch scale, and no onboard electronics in the base version.
About the Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
The GS Mini shrinks Taylor's Grand Symphony shape to a genuinely portable size - just over 36 inches long overall - while keeping proportionally similar bracing and body architecture rather than simply copying a traditional 3/4-size student guitar. The Mahogany version uses a solid tropical mahogany top, generally described as warmer and more compressed-sounding than a spruce top, paired with layered sapele back, sides and neck and a West African Crelicam ebony fingerboard.
The scale length is a short 23.5 inches with a 1 11/16-inch nut width and 20 frets, making the guitar comfortable for smaller hands or quick pickup-and-play sessions. Hardware is simple: die-cast chrome tuners, a Nubone nut and Micarta saddle, and a black pickguard. This base version ships with no electronics and no cutaway, strung with phosphor bronze medium strings, and comes with a structured gig bag rather than a hard case.
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Sound character of the Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
The GS Mini's scaled-down Grand Symphony body punches above its size for volume and low-end, while its solid mahogany top (rather than spruce) leans the tone warmer and darker, with a quicker, more compressed note decay than a spruce-topped equivalent.
Technical data for the Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
| Body | Solid tropical mahogany top, layered sapele back/sides |
|---|---|
| Neck | Layered sapele |
| Fretboard | West African Crelicam ebony |
| Frets | 20 |
| Scale length | 23.5" |
| Nut width | 1 11/16" |
| Pickup | None (base version) |
| Introduced | 2012 |
Price history for the Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
Cheapest seen: 385 EUR · Most expensive seen: 700 EUR
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The history of the Taylor GS Mini Mahogany
Taylor introduced the GS Mini in 2010 as a genuinely well-built travel and companion guitar rather than a toy-like mini instrument, applying the company's full-size construction standards to a smaller format. The Mahogany version followed as a tonal alternative to the original spruce-top GS Mini, and the line has become one of Taylor's most consistently recommended guitars for players wanting a true second instrument for travel, camping, or simply playing around the house.
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