Taylor 657ce Doce Doble Big Leaf Maple Black Acoustic-Electric Guitar With Case - Demo Serial 1205294062 (2024)

657ce Doce Doble

With its all-unison tuning and striking visual style inspired by Mexican musical traditions, the Taylor 657ce Doce Doble offers a unique experience for players wanting to explore the sound of a unison 12-string guitar. 

Another instrument voicing commonly associated with different regional Mexican and other Latin music genres (including Norteño, Tejano and conjunto) is a modified, unison-strung 12-string guitar. It’s sometimes referred to as a requinto-style setup or a Mexican 12-string, but it doesn’t have a formal name, so Taylor is referring to this one as Doce Doble, which translates into “double 12.” It produces a bold and resonant double-course voice.

Traditionally, players wanting a unison 12-string would take a standard-strung 12-string guitar and then have it modified by a luthier — typically with bridge reinforcements needed to support the added string tension — but in this case, the strength and stability of Taylor's own V-Class bracing architecture parallel to the strings eliminates the need for further modification.

That structural integrity, together with the other tonal enhancements of V-Class and Taylor's signature playability, make the 657ce Doce Doble a fantastic plug-and-play option for players looking to explore the sonic flavors of a unison 12-string guitar. Because the tuning is accessible to all players, we think it will have broad appeal to a wide variety of musicians.

Similar to its 657ce Bajo Quinto counterpart, the Doce Doble features a solid maple/spruce Grand Pacific body with a Florentine-style cutaway, along with a comparable appointment package: white binding around the body, fretboard and peghead, a single-ring green abalone rosette with black and white purfling, mother-of-pearl and grained ivoroid Mission inlays, a white pearloid truss rod cover, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, and gold Taylor mini tuners.

Notable distinctions include a single white pearloid pickguard (instead of the double pickguard for the bajo quinto), D’Addario XS coated phosphor bronze light-gauge strings (double 12 stringing) featuring our double-mounted string anchoring system for a more consistent voicing response, and Taylor ES2 electronics. The guitar ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell Western Floral case.

Serial # 1205294062 (2024)  -  this guitar is on display and has been utilized for demos, but is still in great shape.  It's been setup to play perfectly by the techs in our shop.

Specifications

Back/Side Wood: Solid Big Leaf Maple
Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
Neck: Hard Rock Maple
Fretboard: Crelicam Ebony
Nut Width: 1-7/8”
Scale Length: 25-1/2”
Bracing: V-Class
Electronics: Taylor ES2
Guitar Protection: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Western Floral
Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light-gauge
(Double 12 Stringing*)

Stock: AS06134211006773001