V-Class™
Boosts volume, sustain and pitch accuracy. Forms the foundation for many Taylor models and provides a springboard for other voicing innovations. Learn more about V-Class™ Bracing
Bracing
Inside every Taylor guitar is a unique voicing system that helps shape its sound.
Taylor Bracing
How It Works
Bracing is the guitar's internal voicing framework. It helps control how the guitar vibrates — working with the woods to shape the volume, sustain, responsiveness and other properties. It's a key contributor to a guitar's musical personality.
The Taylor Approach
Our proprietary bracing designs allow us to fine-tune different sound profiles across the line — often tailored to specific models and collections.
Taylor Guitars Bracing
Boosts volume, sustain and pitch accuracy. Forms the foundation for many Taylor models and provides a springboard for other voicing innovations. Learn more about V-Class™ Bracing
This variant of our V-Class architecture consists of a fan-like bracing arrangement for the soundboard’s lower bout. Featured exclusively in our Gold Label acoustic guitars, the fanned version offers all the sonic benefits of standard V-Class bracing while adding more depth, warmth, power and enhanced midrange richness, all contributing to the heritage sound of the Gold Label Collection
A scalloped profile that unlocks even greater volume and resonance while preserving V-Class intonation.
Found in many of our layered-wood guitars, our proprietary C-Class bracing features an asymmetrical, cantilevered design (thus the “C” in C-Class) that emphasizes the lower frequencies to produce a surprisingly powerful bass response from a smaller-bodied guitar. The overall sound is sweet, focused and responsive, with a tonal output that sonically punches above its weight class.
The time-honored pattern at the heart of the steel-string acoustic, delivering balanced, articulate tone.
Fan bracing supports the broad, warm response of our nylon-string guitars, voiced for classical and crossover playing.
Fanned V-Class™
This variant of our V-Class architecture consists of a fan-like bracing arrangement for the soundboard’s lower bout. Featured exclusively in our Gold Label acoustic guitars, the fanned version offers all the sonic benefits of standard V-Class bracing while adding more depth, warmth, power and enhanced midrange richness, all contributing to the heritage sound of the Gold Label Collection
Scalloped V-Class™
A scalloped profile that unlocks even greater volume and resonance while preserving V-Class intonation.
C-Class™
Found in many of our layered-wood guitars, our proprietary C-Class bracing features an asymmetrical, cantilevered design (thus the “C” in C-Class) that emphasizes the lower frequencies to produce a surprisingly powerful bass response from a smaller-bodied guitar. The overall sound is sweet, focused and responsive, with a tonal output that sonically punches above its weight class.
X-Bracing
The time-honored pattern at the heart of the steel-string acoustic, delivering balanced, articulate tone.
Nylon-String
Fan bracing supports the broad, warm response of our nylon-string guitars, voiced for classical and crossover playing.
