Taylor 600-Series 618e Grand Symphony Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Spruce Top with Maple Back and Sides

618e Grand Symphony

Recently reintroduced after a redesign of the commanding Grand Orchestra body shape, the 618e offers an experience unlike any other in the Taylor line. This model features the largest Taylor body style made with solid Big Leaf maple and Sitka spruce, resulting in a vibrant, warm, transparent sound that's uniquely reflective of each individual player's stylistic quirks and technique. Boasting an appointment package reserved for Grand Orchestra models, the 618e sports Mission fretboard and peghead inlays in mother-of-pearl, maple binging with koa purfling, a single-ring paua rosette, and a glossy Antique Blonde finish treatment. It ships with ES2 electronics and a hardshell case.

Grand Orchestra
Taylor's biggest body shape blends power, detail and balance across the tonal spectrum.

Maple Back & Sides
Revoiced to produce greater warmth, complexity, volume, sustain and responsiveness

Sitka Spruce Top The soundboard choice for most guitars, Sitka spruce produces a broad dynamic range and accommodates a versatile range of playing styles.

Expression System 2
The Expression System® 2 captures more of a guitar’s dynamic properties using a breakthrough behind-the-saddle design.

V-Class Bracing
Our patented V-Class bracing is a revolutionary new pattern — a new sonic engine — that marks a major shift away from traditional steel-string bracing patterns.

Highlights:

• Scale Length: 25-1/2"
• Bracing: V-Class Bracing
• Pickguard: Dark Stained Maple
• Tuners: Taylor Nickel
• Strings: Phosphor Bronze Medium
• Body Width: 16 3/4"
• Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
• Truss Rod Cover: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Number of Frets: 20
• Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral
• Body Length: 20 5/8"
• Body Depth: 5"

Body:

• Binding Edge Treatment: Rock Maple
• Back Config: 2-piece No Wedge
• Rosette Size: Single Ring
• Back/Side Finish: Gloss 6.0
• Backstrap Wood: None
• Stain/Sunburst: Antique Blond
• Armrest: No
• Top Finish: Gloss
• Backstrap Finish: None
• Bridge Inlay: None
• Armrest Binding: None
• Rosette Material: Paua
• Wedge: None

Neck:

• Neck Width: 1-3/4"
• Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Type of Neck Joint: Scarf
• Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Heel Length: 3-1/2"
• Fretboard Inlay: Mission
• Heel Cap Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck/Heel: Hard Rock Maple
• Neck Finish: Satin

Peghead:

• Peghead Finish: Gloss
• Peghead Type: Standard
• Headstock Overlay: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Logo: Taylor Mother of Pearl
• Peghead Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Purfling: Koa
• Peghead Inlay: Mission, Celluloid/Shell, Grained Ivoroid/Mother of Pearl

Miscellaneous:

• Bridge Pins: West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
• Fingerboard Ext: None
• Edge Trim: Black/Koa/Ivoroid/Black