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.

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