The look and tone of Taylors 2012 GA4 Ovangkol/Spruce Grand Auditorium Acoustic Guitar rivals almost any other in the high-end guitar world. A nice clean piece with excellent tonal balance and clarity. Excellent fit and finish, with gorgeous Ovangkol back and sides allowing this guitar to look as great as it sounds. The rounded neck profile is wildly comfortable, allowing easy chording and lead lines up and down the length of the ebony fingerboard. It comes professionally luthier setup, so it plays and sounds terrific.  Excellent shape-a few surface and playwear patina present, as well as some minor pickwear on the front. Frets show some light wear in the first position, and there is insginificant light finish checking around the end pin. Grand Auditorium (GA)
Taylors GA4 shape embodies the ultimate all-purpose acoustic. The mid-size grand auditorium arrived in 1994 bearing refined proportions that fell between a dreadnought and grand concert. The shape produces an original acoustic voice that was big enough to handle medium-strength picking and strumming, yet with impressive balance across the tonal spectrum, especially in the midrange, producing clear, well-defined notes that suited both strumming and fingerstyle playing. The GAs overall presence tracks well with other instruments both in a studio mix and on stage, and singer-songwriters have embraced its utility both for composing and traveling with one guitar. Ovangkol
Over a decade ago, Taylor introduced the guitar world to a sustainable tonewood known as ovangkol. An African relative of rosewood, it's a great sounding wood that shares many of rosewood's tonal properties, with a slightly fuller midrange and a top end that's not quite as bright as maple. Being lesser known than rosewood, ovangkol has been a sleeper hit over the years, asserting itself as an instant contender among unsuspecting players who test-drive a variety of Taylor models.