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Published on 02/17/04 at 15:00Played this guitar for half an hour at Sam Ash on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It was selling for around $350.
Lots of sparkle in the sound, and playability, as on almost all Taylors, is superb. The feel of this guitar against the body and on the left hand is fantastic, and you can barely notice that it's built on a smaller scale, unless you're weaned on unusually large-bodied guitars like Guilds, larger Gibsons, or Ovations.
Not much, really. The Big Baby isn't that great for dirty blues and hard playing which requires a booming bottom end, but in an acoustic I've always preferred clarity and sparkle over bass thud anyway. There is also the matter that this guitar, though light, is not that small size-wise and may be in an uncomfortable middle ground between true travel guitar and full-sized instrument.
Wonderful. Taylor scores big on the Baby series in this department.
The Baby Taylor and the Big Baby always invite me to sit down and play them when I see them in a store, and they are instantly welcome in feel. The Big Baby has the edge in sound and feel, but you may prefer the Baby for its further reduced size. Either way, these are the best travel acoustics I've played, both in sound and feel.
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Lots of sparkle in the sound, and playability, as on almost all Taylors, is superb. The feel of this guitar against the body and on the left hand is fantastic, and you can barely notice that it's built on a smaller scale, unless you're weaned on unusually large-bodied guitars like Guilds, larger Gibsons, or Ovations.
Not much, really. The Big Baby isn't that great for dirty blues and hard playing which requires a booming bottom end, but in an acoustic I've always preferred clarity and sparkle over bass thud anyway. There is also the matter that this guitar, though light, is not that small size-wise and may be in an uncomfortable middle ground between true travel guitar and full-sized instrument.
Wonderful. Taylor scores big on the Baby series in this department.
The Baby Taylor and the Big Baby always invite me to sit down and play them when I see them in a store, and they are instantly welcome in feel. The Big Baby has the edge in sound and feel, but you may prefer the Baby for its further reduced size. Either way, these are the best travel acoustics I've played, both in sound and feel.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com