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A TAYLOR GUITARS QUARTERLY PUBLICATION • VOLUME 47 • WINTER 2006 pure acoustic THE GS SERIES TAKES SHAPE I’m a 30-year-old mother and wife who Jorma Kaukonen, Bert Jansch, Leo Kottke, 1959 Harmony Sovereign to a collector, loves to play guitar. I currently own two Reverend Gary Davis, and others, and my I will buy that Taylor 110, or even a 200 Letters Fenders. But after seeing you recognize listeners tell me I am better than before series model, which are priced right. my kind of player, my next guitar will be the “incident”. That’s a long story about John-Hans Melcher a Taylor (keeping my fingers crossed for a great guitar saving my hand, my music, (former percussionist for Christmas). Thanks for thinking of me. and my job. Thanks for building your Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret) Via e-mail Bonnie Manning product like I build mine — with pride Via e-mail and quality materials. By the way, I saw Artie Traum conduct After many years of searching and try- Aloha, Mahalo Nui a workshop here in Wakefield and it was ing all manner of quality instruments in Loa, A Hui Hou a very good time. Artie is a fine musician order to improve on the sound and feel Aloha from Maui! I met David Hosler, and a real down-to-earth guy — my kind of, would you believe, a 1966 Harmony Rob Magargal, and David Kaye at Bounty of people. Sovereign, I’ve done it! It’s called a Taylor Music on Maui last August, and I hope Bob “Slice” Crawford 710ce-L9. Thank you for this superb they survived their Hawaiian tour [Events, Wakefield, Rhode Island instrument. Fall 2005]. Thank you for the privilege of Michael Betteridge having your team come here to serve us. I Web TV Via e-mail have loved owning and playing my Taylor Just a quick note to tell you how much Illustration by Rick Geary guitar for two years, and I was planning to I love the Taylor website. It’s a fantastic Mute Testimony T5 Deposition take it in to Bounty for some minor repair resource and the video content is superb: Thank you a thousand times. Yesterday, Music is very important to our law firm; all the partners play in an work when I learned about the [Taylor Day I can watch Taylor videos on my laptop, I opened my new 510ce-L9 at the store, amateur band — the Objections. I just received a T5 as a birthday gift from event]. I was excited to have people look at while my other half watches the soaps on tuned it up, and played one big E chord, my partners. This is my third Taylor, and I am amazed by the quality, my guitar who really know Taylors. TV — we’re both happy! then muted it — and all the other Taylors sound, feel, and looks of this instrument. I am now 55 and still astonishingly It also was fun to watch the guys work I have a 2001 315ce and I love it to bits. on the wall were still ringing harmonics! good-looking, so I might quit the firm and hit the road. If my partners sue on all the guitars, especially mine, and I I’m coming over see my brother in L.A. The shopowner and I were so amazed, we Taylor for damage done to our firm, I will represent you. enjoyed learning from them and speaking next year, and I’m hoping to fit in a factory both just broke into delighted laughter! It I thought that my 714 was the most beautiful guitar I had ever played. with Rob. David [Hosler] told some great visit to see you all. Thanks so much, Bob was surreal. Not any more. jokes, so he was fun, too. Thank you for the and Company; you’re fabulous. Your new Dreadnought voicing is beau- Joe Williams care with which you handled my guitar. Dave Scott tiful. Your short-scale is way more play- Via e-mail I am even more sure now that Taylor is West Midlands UK able. Your ES system is simply the most Number One in every way. Please thank perfect amplified acoustic ensemble of those who thought of the idea to tour The 15-Year Report sound (string tones, harmonics, thumps, Hawaii. It is deeply appreciated. Mahalo You probably get tired of hearing this, scratches, and every other sound that Pilot Program The upshot is, I went on the website Nui Loa (thank you very much), a hui hou but I have some praise for your company. playing creates) I’ve ever heard from a I got the Fall [2005] issue of Wood&Steel that night after the gig (around 2 a.m., (until we meet again). Aloha. I bought my Taylor 810 in 1989 and have guitar. And the fragrance of the guitar and took it with me on a flight to New because I couldn’t wait) and looked at the Dale Kreps loved it now for 15 years. In that time, I’ve — from what source, who knows? — is a Jersey, where I did the Springsteen “Light T5s. I watched all the videos, and now I Maui, Hawaii had some dealings with Taylor customer really unexpected bonus. of Day” benefit at the Stone Pony in have to have one! It’s the perfect guitar for service, which has always been extraor- Who could ever expect a new guitar Asbury Park. As I got on the plane with me, with all my traveling and the fact that A Cut Above dinary. Wood&Steel is fantastic and I’m not only to sound wonderful, play easily, my gig bag, the pilot, who was standing at I need both electric and acoustic sounds. I have to write about the astounding sure it is very effective at bringing you and meet all my expectations times 10, the entrance to the plane, asked me what I haven’t actually played one yet; I will try quality of your instruments. I have been new business. It sure does make me want but also smell good? Incredible. I played it kind of guitar I had. I said, “Collings.” He to find one in Nashville. a cabinetmaker for 20 years and a guitar a second Taylor. for hours and hours last night. I love this said, “I have a Taylor.” I said. “Oh yeah, Cindy Bullens player/teacher for much of that time. My Recently, I ordered some accessories new guitar! great guitars.” Nashville, Tennessee trade keeps me close to the wonderful from Janet [Reynolds] in the TaylorWare Bill Cory Then I told him I had the new stuff we call wood. It also keeps my hands department. She was terrifically helpful Colorado Springs, Colorado Wood&Steel with me and he asked to see [Ed. note: In addition to working as close to sharp blades. and polite. Your company is as impressive it. He took it into the cockpit to show his a vocalist with Elton John and on the Two years ago, I was working at a table as your products, which are stellar. Yours is Guru Gone Wild co-pilot (I guess) and to read it. He came Grease soundtrack, and as a songwriter saw and received a rather nasty cut that a shining example of American business A heartfelt thank-you to Bob Taylor back out and we talked about guitars; he with Nashville stalwarts Al Anderson and required tendon surgery on my guitar-fin- the way it should be. and his engineers, technicians, craftsmen, has a 314ce. I told him that I bought a Radney Foster, Bullens has enjoyed a highly gering hand. When I rather jokingly asked Mike Dosch and administrative staff — you are all Taylor for “a friend” and had played his, regarded recording career. Her new CD, the surgeon if I’d be able to play again, he Via e-mail incredible people to have created the fin- but that I had some really great acoustics Dream #29, features guest performances stopped sewing and said it would be “the est line of acoustic and electro-acoustic and couldn’t really justify getting another by Elton John, Delbert McClinton, and Tim best therapy” I could do. So when the ban- instruments I’ve ever held in my hands. one, unless it was something completely Wakefield.] dages came off, I dusted off my old [other Two-part Harmony I’ve tried all kinds and have been playing different. brand] and started at it. I’m a drummer, but I go to all the Taylor since the Beatles blew up the world with We talked some more and he sug- It All Ads Up Well, time, lack of care, and a new left workshops. Recently, I caught Pat Kirtley their atomic array of spectacular music. gested that I look at the T5. Then I read I typically read right over ads and hand made the old guitar seem even older! at the Candyman in Santa Fe, New Mexico As a guru for the high-technology indus- Wood&Steel during the flight and read don’t give them a thought. Then I saw Then I played a Taylor 414-RCE. It fit like and he gave us his all, for two hours! By try for 35 years, I searched local music my name associated with [Boston Red your ad in Guitar Player magazine about a glove and sounded like a dream, so I the way, there was not one Taylor owner stores and pawn shops from the East to Sox pitcher] Tim Wakefield — so wild! the woman who got nine innings alone risked divorce to buy her.