{"id":307,"date":"2015-12-14T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2015-12-14T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:32:05","slug":"my-new-taylor-gsmini-koa-e-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"My New Taylor GSmini Koa-e Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304\"><img data-attachment-id=\"304\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?attachment_id=304\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2448,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445778414&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Taylor GSmini Koa e\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-768x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"My New Guitar\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1114-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My New Guitar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pam bought me this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor<\/a> guitar for an early Christmas present. It is made of rare Hawaiian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acacia_koa\" target=\"_blank\">Koa<\/a> wood. It sounds and plays like a dream. Not to mention how beautiful it is. The size is perfect for an apartment. I can comfortably sit on the couch and play it without taking up more than a single seat worth of space.<\/p>\n<p>It has a strong, bright tone. The strings are right above the fret board making it very easy to play. The intonation is perfectly in tune everywhere on the neck. I have never owned such a finely crafted guitar. It may be small but it is loud and if I need it to be louder, or I want to record with it, it has a built in pickup and volume and tone controls.<\/p>\n<p>The Koa wood is endemic\u00a0to Hawaii. It grows at altitudes between 330 and 7500 feet and requires between 33 and 197 inches of annual rainfall. It is a tone wood which is to say it is known for the musical tone it imbues instruments made from it.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I sound a little bit like a fanatic about it but until you&#8217;ve heard it played, it&#8217;s hard to describe how it sounds. I love my new guitar and my sweet wife who bought it for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam bought me this Taylor guitar for an early Christmas present. It is made of rare Hawaiian Koa wood. It sounds and plays like a dream. Not to mention how beautiful it is. The size is perfect for an apartment. I can comfortably sit on the couch and play it without taking up more than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My New Taylor GSmini Koa-e Guitar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}