Meet the Taylor GS Mini, one of the world's most popular acoustic guitars: a smaller body and a compact feel with a big, bold tone that punches far above its size. Based on a scaled-down version of our Grand Symphony body shape, GS Mini guitars boast solid tops and a variety of tonewood options serving up different flavors of vibrant acoustic tone. The GS Mini family is also home to the GS Mini Bass, a super-compact four-string acoustic bass with a slinky feel and a punchy response. Whether you're looking for a campfire guitar, a songwriting tool or just a great-sounding acoustic that's up for anything, the GS Mini has you covered.
With their condensed scale, accommodating body, and rich acoustic voice, GS Mini guitars and basses offer a totally unique acoustic playing experience.

Every GS Mini guitar and bass is built with a solid top for optimal projection and clarity. Choose from spruce, mahogany and koa for top woods, along with layered rosewood, layered mahogany, layered sapele and layered koa for the backs and sides.
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Key to the GS Mini Series' comfortable, relaxed feel is the slender Taylor neck design, whose 1-11/16 width and slim profile makes for a smooth, slinky handfeel—perfect for new players and experienced guitarists alike.
All GS Mini guitars are available with our ES-B acoustic pickup, which also includes a built-in digital tuner with an LED display, along with tone and volume controls so you can refine your sound when plugged in.
GS Mini guitars are appointed with subtle visual touches like the three-ring rosette and 4mm dot fretboard inlays. Their true visual character lies in their tonewoods, with rosewood/spruce, mahogany, and Hawaiian koa models all offering a distinctive organic beauty.
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The GS Mini Series includes a pair of compact acoustic basses with specially designed nylon-core bass strings that feel soft and slinky under your fingers. Players looking for an elevated aesthetic will appreciate the refined appointments of the GS Mini-e Koa Plus.
All GS Mini models come with gig bags for protection and transport. The GS Mini-e Koa Plus features an upgrade to our AeroCase, which offers all the protection of a hardshell case at one-third the weight.
“The compact size is perfect to play anywhere and packs the volume, whether plugged in or not, to fill a room with melody.”
Understanding Acoustic Guitar Model Numbers Acoustic Guitar
Compact, comfortable and boldly voiced, the GT (grand theater) acoustic guitar offers an enjoyable, accessible experience for pros and casual players alike.
There's a Taylor for every player, whether you're a beginner or a pro. Explore the Taylor line by body shape and tonewood to find the right combination of feel and sound for you.Need to figure out what year your Taylor guitar was built? It's actually pretty simple. Taylor guitars have been around since the mid-'70s and have utilized three primary serial number systems over the years. Using these will give you the year of manufacturer, and for more recent guitars, it will even give you the exact date the guitar was made.
If your Taylor serial number is less than six digits long, that means the guitar was made between 1975 until the end of 1992. Here's the breakdown of serials from that era:
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Starting in 1993 and up until 2009, finding the year of a Taylor is as easy as looking at the first digits of the serial number. For guitars from made prior to 2000, you'll find a 9-digit serial with first two digits denoting the year. For example, a 9-digit Taylor serial starting with '96' indicates a guitar made in 1996.
Starting in 2000, this same format was used but expanded by two digits to accommodate the full year. A Taylor from 2006 would have an 11-digit serial starting with '2006'.
There's other information contain in the 9- and 11-digit serials of this era. The four digits after the year indicate the month and date production started, and the final three digits mark where the guitar falls in the total number produced that day.
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Starting in 2009, Taylor adopted a new system which changes the order and information contained in the serial a bit. These serials follow a 10-digit format with the years falling in the second and seventh positions in the sequence. The first digit indicates which factory the guitar was made in (1 for El Cajon and 2 for Tecate), while digits three through six reveal the date of production.

We understand the importance of online privacy and are committed to complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. To reflect our commitment, we updated our terms and conditions. By continuing to use , you agree to these updates, and to our cookie policy. Learn MoreTo help answer that question, Taylor Guitars has published a serial number guide that helps to date their guitars all the way back to the mid-70s. According to Taylor’s website: “
Our numbering system was a little less sophisticated in the early days, and we didn’t adhere to an actual production “schedule” until 1987. If your serial number is near the tail-end of a particular year’s sequence (pre-1987), your guitar might have been made very late that year, or very early the following year. Gradually, we got around to our current, more accurate formula for pinpointing the exact day that work was begun on a particular guitar.
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” Follow the jump for the full table of numbers and years, plus some interesting historical information along the timeline. This information is courtesy of Taylor Guitars.
To date your guitar, simply read the serial number found on the label inside your Taylor, match it to the range in the table below, and viola, you’ll see what year it was made.
Employees Bob Taylor, Kurt Listug, and Steve Schemmer purchase the American Dream Musical Instrument Manufacturing shop in Lemon Grove, California, and change the name to Taylor Guitars; all rosewood used is Brazilian.
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Had to let most of our employees go after we used up our original capital; settled into being broke and trying to figure out how to make guitars.
Guitar #20168 is the first Taylor made from East Indian rosewood; guitar #20179 is the latest Taylor “on record” to have the mortise neck joint (by the time we made #20229, we were not using mortise neck joints); Kurt hits the road to sell direct to dealers.

Still finishing up and selling off guitars started in 1979, before we let our employees go for the second time; sold some guitars to Musician’s Supply, and finally paid off a five-year-old bill for wood we’d purchased from Martin.
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Introduce Grand Concert body style (the earliest Grand Concert we know of is #2744); for the first time, Bob and Kurt represent their own guitars at the National Association Of Music Merchants show.
In July, move to 5, 000-square-foot plant in Santee, California; guitar #5300 (a 510-C) is a “transitional” instrument (built in the original Lemon Grove shop, but strung-up in the new Santee facility).
Begin making our own cases (August). Purchase our first Fadal, a CNC (computer-controlled) milling machine to increase the levels of productivity and precision in making guitar parts (December).
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In August, move into 25, 000-square-foot plant in El Cajon, California; guitar #16250 (a 712) is a “transitional” instrument (built in Santee plant, strung-up in the new El Cajon facility); 400 series ending number: 3152.
Introduce Grand Auditorium body style on 20th Anniversary, limited-edition models; in May, begin sanding all fingerboards on the new Fadal sander; publish premiere issue (Summer) of quarterly newsletter, Wood&Steel, which features a “Pushing the Envelope” story about the new fingerboard sander.
Introduce Limited Edition Grand Auditoriums (GAs); create Pallet Guitar; introduce Taylor acoustic bass; in February, begin using ultraviolet (UV) finish on all Taylor guitars (see “The Finish Line: What UV Means to You” on the Details/Tech-Sheets page).
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Introduce Presentation Series; Baby Taylor; LKSM-6; Grand Auditoriums added to regular line; SKB cases for 400 Series; in January, begin making “curved” pegheads on all Dreadnoughts; introduce TaylorWare line of branded clothing and accessories.
Re-open Custom Shop; in January, introduce new Dreadnought shape; SmartStart Guitar program; Cujo Guitar signed by author Stephen King; groundbreaking on new factory building.
In January, Taylor Guitars’ website goes online; guitar line expanded to 61 models, including three new series (300, Koa, and Walnut), revamped 400, 600, 700, 800 Series, introduction of Baby-M and AB-3 maple/spruce bass; release of Sounds of Wood&Steel: A Windham Hill Collection, a CD featuring numerous artists playing Taylor guitars and basses; in August, begin moving into new factory/office building; introduce re-designed label and begin affixing them to the back of the interior of each guitar, where they’re easily visible.
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In January, introduce Bob Taylor’s “new-tech” design, representing the first re-design of the acoustic steel-string guitar in 100 years; Windham Hill releases Sounds of Wood&Steel2, a sequel to the 1998 CD collection; introduce new gig bag for the Baby Taylor; open 8, 000-square-foot storage facility next to Taylor factory; enter agreement to factory-install Elixir strings, featuring Polyweb coating, on all Taylors.
In January, we introduce the Gallery Series of guitars, featuring original, thematic artwork inlays (for 2000 it was “sea life”); also create our first new Signature Models in a decade, making guitars with Clint Black,
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