Taylor’s New Baritone 8 String

More news coming out of NAMM as the show kicks off today in Anaheim, California. Taylor has announced a new Baritone 8 String guitar. The new Baritone 8 is interesting because they’ve paired two octave strings with the third and fourth strings, adding a touch of upper-octave brightness. Bob Taylor explains. “We loved the traditional baritone, but missed having some of that upper register. We thought, what if we turned it into a 9-string baritone? So, we made one. But after deciding it was a little too jangly, we pulled off the [doubled second] string, leaving the third and fourth octave strings. It sounded awesome.”