Taylor BT2-E Baby Taylor with Pickup and Gigbag | Mahogany

Whether you're looking for a small guitar for a young beginner or a compact option for practicing on the road, the Baby Taylor offers a punchy acoustic voice in a package that can follow you anywhere. This model (BT2e) sports a solid mahogany top that produces clear tone and projection, along with a slender neck for smooth, relaxed fretting. Its built-in ES-B pickup includes an easy-to-use digital tuner, and it comes with a lightweight gig bag for transportation and storage. 

A versatile, small bodied guitar that delivers an authentic Taylor playing experience.

3/4-size Dreadnought

Arched back for added strength

Great for travel, alternate tunings, and kids

A ¾-size Dreadnought that's big on tone.

A ¾-scale Dreadnought, the Baby Taylor is designed to yield a ton of volume for its small size. A layered sapele back is pressed into a slight arch, providing strength and helping produce the Baby’s full, rich tone. It’s also remarkably versatile for special applications, whether played in alternate tunings or high-strung; with a capo or a slide. And it’s the perfect travel companion or starter guitar for young kids.

Taylor’s ¾-size mini-Dreadnought helped spawn the travel guitar market with a well-crafted design that blends musicality and playability. Its small size also makes it a great starter guitar for kids and an ultra-compact songwriting guitar, and adds a unique acoustic flavor to a music mix. 

While the rich tones of solid wood remain unmatched, a layered wood construction can yield great sound in a beautiful, durable and affordable instrument. Such is the case with layered sapele, in which we use interior and exterior veneers of sapele with a core layer of poplar between them. One of the benefits of layered wood for guitars is extra resilience in the face of fluctuating humidity conditions. This comes in handy for guitars like the GS Mini and Baby Taylor models, which are travel-friendly guitars that may be more directly exposed to different environments. All Taylor layered-wood models feature a solid wood top to optimize the tonal response. 

As a top wood, mahogany produces a natural compression, so it won’t yield as quick a response as a spruce-top guitar will. A mahogany-top guitar will produce strong fundamentals, with clear and direct focus. It might be characterized as having a woody, dry tone.

Tropical Mahogany
Origin: Central and South America

Used On: 300 Series, 500 Series, American Dream Series, GT Series, GS Mini, Baby Taylor,

A hardwood top with more density than spruce or cedar
The stiffness initially yields a bright tone that gradually gets deeper
Harder, denser woods like mahogany and koa that are used on the back and sides of a guitar are sometimes used as tops. Their stiffness initially translates into a bright tone and tends to need more play-in time to open up, but the more a mahogany-top guitar is played, the more it develops overtones that contribute to a fuller, richer sound. A mahogany-top guitar might appeal to rootsy players who like a little extra punchiness in their tone.

Goes Well With: Blues and roots players, anyone who likes an slightly more burly or punchy quality to their tone. 

ES-B™ Acoustic Electronics

This version of our ES-B electronics incorporates Taylor’s Expression System® 2 piezo design elements and features a multifunctional onboard preamp with a built-in digital chromatic tuner and active tone-shaping EQ control. The preamp/tuner unit features an LED display for tuning and low battery indication, along with a Volume control and 3-band EQ. The preamp/tuner is powered by a 9v battery. With an alkaline battery, battery life expectancy when using the preamp only is over 500 hours, and when using the tuner is over 50 hours. Plugging in the guitar will activate the battery. A low battery indicator on the LED display (located on the preamp circuit board) will light up when the battery reaches 4.5 volts.

Read our guide to using the ES-B pickup.