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Taylor Baby Mahogany BT2e Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Natural Mahogany

6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Mahogany Top, Layered Sapele Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard - Natural
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This Baby Has Built-in Electronics

Taylor's Baby Mahogany-e acoustic-electric guitar is the perfect travel companion and writing guitar thanks to it's compact size. A mahogany top and layered sapele back and sides give this guitar a tone that transcends its size. The 3/4-size design is extremely comfortable and fun to play. And when you need to plug in, the Baby-e has Taylor's new Expression System Baby pickup built in. It uses the under-saddle pickup of the ES2 system coupled with a preamp that sports a chromatic tuner. Whether you're looking for a guitar to craft songs on or a great travel guitar, the Taylor Baby Mahogany-e is the perfect choice.

Choice tonewoods: Mahogany meets Sapele

The Taylor Baby Mahogany-e, is a prime example of the high-quality tonewoods Taylor selects for their guitars. It features time-proven mahogany as its top, which gives you wonderful projection with the perfect amount of sparkle. The Taylor Baby Mahogany-e's layered sapele back and sides also give it warm and mellow quality, similar to that of mahogany, providing it with an all-around balanced tone.

Plug your baby in with Taylor's Expression System Baby pickup system

Taylor design the new Expression System Baby (ES-B) system to deliver great-sounding natural tone of your Baby Mahogany-e to your amp, PA, or recorder. They took the under-saddle element from the their acclaimed ES2 system and paired it with an onboard preamp. You get volume and tone controls as well as a built-in chromatic tuner with LED display.

3/4-size Dreadnought is easy to play and to transport

At 3/4 the scale of a full-sized guitar, the body of a Taylor Baby Mahogany-e is compact yet still full on tone. It's comfortable for rehearsals in cramped spaces, as a travel guitar, or the perfect size for most young guitar players. It's remarkably versatile for special applications, whether played in alternate tunings or the high-strung Nashville tuning, a favorite of Sweetwater guitarists. Don't let its size fool you, this guitar has big guitar tone.

Taylor Baby Mahogany-e Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • 3/4-size dreadnought acoustic-electric guitar
  • Mahogany top and layered sapele back and sides for great tone
  • Expression System Baby electronics deliver great plugged-in tones
  • Small size is comfortable and easy to play
  • Ebony fretboard and bridge
  • Includes Taylor gig bag

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: 3/4 Dreadnought
  • Body Style: No Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Layered Sapele
  • Top Wood: Mahogany
  • Finish: Varnish
  • Color: Natural
  • Body Bracing: X
  • Neck Wood: Tropical American Mahogany
  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Pearloid Dots
  • Number of Frets: 19
  • Scale Length: 22.75"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Tusq Nut/Micarta Saddle
  • Bridge Material: Ebony
  • Tuning Machines: Enclosed, Die-Cast Chrome Plated
  • Electronics: Expression System Baby
  • Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light, .012-.053
  • Case Included: Gig Bag
  • Body Length: 15.75"
  • Body Width: 12.5"
  • Body Depth: 3.37"
  • Overall Length: 33.7"
  • Manufacturer Part Number: FB01005017000141000

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Rated 5/5

Stellar Guitar

I bought this guitar for my little girl to learn on. It was the perfect size for her! I have a Mahogany GS Mini that I absolutely love, so I thought I'd try a baby in mahogany. I fell in love with it. I play this Mahogany Baby Taylor more than the GS Mini now. It has become my favorite guitar. Secretly I wish it was mine, but thankfully my little girl let's me play it every day after work. We fight over it! Just kidding, but I want to buy another one so bad. We take this Baby Taylor everywhere we go! We play it during the week, at family gatherings, and we can plug it in for school talent shows and church performances. Get it!
Music background: Musician | Photographer
Rated 5/5

Outstanding!

I was shopping for a small scale guitar. However, all the music stores had been closed due to the pandemic. So I asked my cousin, a 40+ year guitar player, where I should go for an online purchase. He couldn't have pointed me in a better direction! Sweetwater gets top marks from me across the board. From the way their products are listed (excellent photography, description and all specifications). My sales engineer contacted me the day after I made the purchase, which I think is a great touch. They find the exact guitar you want, do their 55 point inspection, repack it in its original packaging, then pack that in their own packaging for extra protection. Everything Sweetwater did for my experience with them they could not have done better.

As for the guitar, it's wonderful. Generally, it's a beautiful to look at instrument. Electronics work great. I like how the tuner turns itself off, because I forget to all the time. While the sound unplugged is well balanced from bass to treble, it definitely does not project like a dreadnaught. For me, that's ok, because I am using this guitar almost exclusively for fingerstyle and gives me that plucky type sound I'm looking for. The action on it was good coming out of the box. Once I lowered the action to where I like it, it plays great and the intonation is still spot on.

Only two small negative points. First, I'm not too keen on the Elixir Nanoweb strings. My fingernails have already started to scratch the coating off. Second, I was a little disappointed Taylor did not provide a truss rod wrench with the guitar. All in all a great shopping experience. Thank you all at Sweetwater!
Music background: 30+ Year Backyard Campfire Player.
Rated 5/5

Sweet Little Guita

This guitar was purchased to travel home to home in a hospice program. If you are looking for a half-size guitar and you are more than half-serious about playing, this is a sweet little instrument. It's very playable, sounds darn good for the size, and is just pretty impressive. The mahogany and the slightly rounded back give it warmth and projection. If more early players learned on this guitar, there would be more old players out there. The gig-bag case is very rigid and offers great protection. Well worth the money.
Music background: self-taught picker/strummer
Rated 5/5

Perfect Baby Acoustic

Played the demo in store today as I always do when going to Sweetwater. Sound is great just how a Taylor should sound. Action is low for great feel. The back of the body concave feels/fits great against the human body. Small easy to carry around. The case it comes with is awesome. Tuner on the guitar works great and plugged in sounds awesome as well. Make sure there’s batteries in it though! Everything about this guitar is exactly what you would want it to be.
Music background: 20 plus year guitar player
Rated 5/5

Amazing feel and sound in a tiny package!

I love this guitar.

Literally my only complaint is that the electronics get activated in the gig bag when I've got a strap tucked in there but they automatically shut off with inactivity so even that's not really much of a complaint.

If you buy this without putting your hands on it first it is incredibly small... online videos really don't do it justice because you can't tell how big the person doing the demo is.

I picked this up because I wanted to be able to sit on the couch or in a chair with armrests and have a guitar that wasn't awkward to use and this fits that need perfectly. I can even play it in the drivers seat of my car comfortably.

The action is incredible, nearly as low and easy to play as an electric. The frets are great, and there was not a sharp fret end to be felt.

The thing even smells good!
Music background: Beginner

As one of the nation's top Taylor Guitars dealers, Sweetwater receives regular on-site training from Bob, Andy, and the rest of the Taylor crew. We're also, many of us, Taylor players ourselves, and we're happy to steer you in the right direction once you're ready to make the leap. New to Taylor? Our Find Your Fit guide simplifies Taylor body shapes, woods, and series. Longtime player? Our Taylor Custom Shop, annual limited editions, and in-house mods offer a level of exclusivity you won't find in stores. Whatever your pleasure, Sweetwater's climate-controlled warehouse and 55-point Inspection ensure your Taylor guitar arrives ready to play just as the manufacturer intended.

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