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NAMM '13 - Taylor Guitars Grand Orchestra Demo

PG's Shawn Hammond is On Location in Anaheim, California, for the 2013 NAMM Show where he visits the Taylor Guitars booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear a demo of Taylor's newest acoustic body style -- the Grand Orchestra. For more NAMM 2013 demos or to watch one of Premier Guitar's 1900 other videos, be sure to visit https://www.premierguitar.com/video



PG's Shawn Hammond is On Location in Anaheim, California, for the 2013 NAMM Show where he visits the Taylor Guitars booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear a demo of Taylor's newest acoustic body style -- the Grand Orchestra.

For more NAMM 2013 demos or to watch one of Premier Guitar's 1900 other videos, be sure to visit https://www.premierguitar.com/video

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“It’s like time travel,” says Brandon Seabrook, reflecting on the sonic whiplash of “Object of Unknown Function.” The piece, which opens the composer’s solo album of the same name, journeys jarringly from aggressive “early banjo stuff” up through “more 21st-century classical music,” combined with electronic found sounds from a TASCAM 4-track cassette recorder. The end result approaches the disorientation of musique concréte.

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