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It’s become almost a cliché of modern guitar lore – and an unfair one, I might add – to declare that Taylors are nice guitars but lack ‘character’. I think that’s partly because Taylors often don’t sound instantly familiar to our mind’s ear – namely, they don’t closely resemble the tones of the pre-war Martin and Gibson designs that form our archetypes of modern acoustic tone. That doesn’t mean they lack a vibe, however. And which Taylors are

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