Taylor Legacy 514ce Grand Auditorium

Our year-long celebration of Taylor’s 50th anniversary culminates with the introduction of a special family of instruments called the Legacy Collection.

The collection pays tribute to Bob Taylor’s iconic Grand Auditorium with two cedar-top models that were popular standards for many years: the mahogany 514ce and rosewood 714ce.

All Legacy Collection models feature a specially designed “Legacy” label inside the guitar. The labels for the first 100 of each model will be hand-signed by co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.

• Cutaway Grand Auditorium: The mahogany/cedar Legacy 514ce and rosewood/cedar Legacy 714ce honor the iconic Grand Auditorium body style—which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year—with two classic cutaway GA models that aren’t currently available in the Taylor line.
• Western Red Cedar tops: Offering a warmth and touch sensitivity that fingerstyle players and light to moderate strummers will love, these guitars record really well. These models offer players a choice between mahogany and rosewood tonal flavors.
• X-Bracing: These are voiced the way the original models were in the ‘90s and 2000s.
• Onboard Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC (volume, tone, compression), featuring an undersaddle pickup and all-discrete, Class A preamp that includes a soundholemounted volume and tone control.
• Legacy 514ce: Faux tortoiseshell binding (body and fretboard) with black and white top purfling, mother-of-pearl small diamond fretboard inlays. Green abalone three-ring rosette, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, gloss-finish body and satin-finish neck, faux tortoiseshell pickguard and Taylor gold tuning machines.