I am offering here a Taylor AD26e Baritone 6 Special Edition from 2023, a crafted in El Cajon, California (USA), limited-edition baritone acoustic guitar model featuring a Grand Symphony design, fine tropical mahogany top, back and sides made of warm-sounding African sapele, one-piece mahogany neck with 44.5mm TUSQ nut, premium ebony fingerboard with Italian acrylic dot inlays, ebony bridge with Micarta saddle, long 685mm scale length, Taylor US nickel tuners as well as high-quality Taylor Expression System 2 pickup system in a beautiful Shaded Edge Burst matte finish with Firestripe pickguard in mint condition including brown Taylor luxury hardshell case and professional setup with 16-70 Elixir Nanoweb 80/20 strings.

This Taylor AD26e Baritone 6 Special Edition is a limited-edition Grand Symphony model from Taylor’s American Dream series, crafted in El Cajon, USA. Taylor’s American Dream Series serves as the entry point into the company’s line of American-made guitars, combining solid tonewoods of the highest quality with elegant features and first-class U.S. craftsmanship to deliver a seamless playing experience with unmatched clarity and balance.

The classic combination of sapele for the back and sides and tropical mahogany for the top produces a wonderfully full-bodied, balanced tone that is rich in harmonic texture and gives this baritone guitar—tuned a fourth lower—a wonderfully warm timbre. A specially forward-positioned baritone bracing pattern inside the body ensures fantastic volume with long, sustained sustain. It’s a dream baritone acoustic guitar that responds superbly not only to classic strumming but especially to flatpicking and fingerpicking!

This Taylor AD26e Baritone 6 offers everything you love about a large-body baritone guitar: a powerful, direct response with maximum volume and an open sound with prominent mids and lively bass. This guitar is a true joy from the very first strum, and you can spend days, weeks, even years playing it without ever longing for another guitar. ;)

You can find a sound sample of this model above at the end of the photo gallery.

Furthermore, the Taylor ES-2 pickup system faithfully reproduces the instrument’s sound live with harmonic balance and natural dynamics.

In terms of playability, a slim mahogany neck with medium-width 44.45mm nut and precisely adjusted string action ensure smooth playability—despite the thicker strings.

Technical Specifications:

• Origin: El Cajon, CA, USA
• Year of Manufacture: 2023
• Body Shape: Grand Symphony
• Top: Tropical Mahogany (solid)
• Bracing: Taylor Baritone Bracing
• Back / Sides: African Sapele (solid)
• Neck: Mahogany, one-piece
• Fingerboard: Eucalyptus with Italian acrylic dot inlays
• Frets: 19
• Nut: 44.5 mm, TUSQ
• Bridge: Eucalyptus with Micarta bridge inlay
• Tuners: Taylor USA nickel tuners
• Pickup: Taylor Expression System 2, active
• Pickguard: Firestripe
• Finish: Shaded Edge Burst (top), Natural Satin (body)
• Scale length: 685 mm
• Serial No.: 1207133045
• Includes a brown Taylor luxury hardshell case

As a Special Edition model, the Taylor AD26e Baritone 6 is now a rare guitar.

This guitar is in absolutely mint condition and technically flawless. Visually, it shows only finest superficial wear, if any at all (see photos). The frets are flawless.

The instrument has been professionally set up with 16-70 Elixir Nanoweb 80/20 strings, and I (a long-time guitar teacher) will ship it fully insured with DHL for €29.99 within Germany or €69.99 within the EU. Worldwide shipping is available—individual shipping costs upon request.

All photos shown are of the actual instrument for sale.