Taylor GT 811 Acoustic Indian Rosewood Body Ebony Board Natural

Taylor GT 811 Acoustic Indian Rosewood Body Ebony Board Natural

One of the first GT guitars to be released in the context of an existing series, the GT 811 blends the dazzling sparkle and warmth of Indian rosewood with the unmatched playability of the GT’s comfortably compact frame. With its shorter body and scale length, the GT’s proportions are smaller than the Grand Concert but larger than the GS Mini, finding a sweet spot where comfort meets rich, solid-wood tone.

The superstar tonewood pairing of Indian rosewood back and sides with a Sitka spruce top delivers all the clarity and balance you’d expect from a full-size rosewood guitar, while its smaller footprint and shorter scale (24-⅛”) provide a slinkier feel that makes complex chords or arpeggio formations easier to hold. Under the hood, the GT 811e reflects Taylor’s envelope-pushing design approach—we’ve adapted the tone-enhancing benefits of V-Class bracing into a new pattern that provides similar increases in volume and sustain for the GT’s smaller frame.

Called C-Class bracing, this interior architecture boosts the response in the bass range, yielding warmth and presence that a guitar of this size typically can’t produce. This model is appointed to match its counterparts in the 800 Series, featuring maple binding with black purfling accents, a single-ring abalone rosette, a thin 4.5-mil gloss finish on the entire body, and mother-of-pearl fretboard and peghead inlays in our Element pattern.

The GT 811 ships with our exclusive AeroCase, whose ultra-lightweight construction and padded walls provides ample protection.

Specifications

Highlights

Scale Length - 24-1/8”

Nut & Saddle - Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle

Bracing - C-Class

Truss Rod Cover - West African Crelicam Ebony

Pickguard - Rosewood

Number of Frets - 20

Tuners - Taylor Nickel Mini

Case - Aerocase

Brand of Strings - Elixir Phosphor Bronze Light

Body Length - 18-½”

Body Width - 15”

Body Depth - 4-¼”

Body

Gloss 4.5

Back Config - 2-piece No Wedge

Rosette Size - Single Ring

Back/Side Finish - Gloss 4.5

Rosette Mat. - Abalone

Neck

Neck Width - 1-23/32”

Fretboard Inlay - Element

Heel Cap Binding - West African Crelicam Ebony

Type of Neck Joint - Scarf

Neck/Heel - Tropical Mahogany

Fretboard Wood - West African Crelicam Ebony

Neck Finish - Satin

Heel Length - 3-1/4”

Peghead

Peghead Finish - Gloss

Peghead Type - Standard

Headstock Overlay - Indian Rosewood

Peghead Inlay - Element

Peghead Logo - Taylor Mother of Pearl

Other

Bridge Pins - West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots

Buttons - Smoked Nickel

Edge Trim - Maple/Indian Rosewood