With $100 off more than 60 acoustic guitars at Taylor, here's the 5 that should be at the top of your shopping list this Black Friday

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I’ll be honest, Black Friday deals on Taylor acoustics rarely surface in a way that feels genuinely worthwhile, but this year I think the discounts are real rather than token. If you already know your way around Taylor’s line-up, you can see exactly where the value lands in the $100 off deals currently live at Sweetwater and Guitar Center.

These Black Friday guitar deals are not clearance bin oddities or stripped-down variants; these are core models - discounts include the 100 Series, 200 Series, 200 Plus Series and 200 Deluxe Series, alongside three all-solid-wood cutaway Grand Auditorium models - with the usual build integrity, consistent neck profiles and the sound you expect from the brand.

Players who already understand the tonal fingerprints of Sitka, mahogany, sapele or rosewood will appreciate that these price drops put some solid instruments within reach without asking you to compromise on woods or construction. The same applies to the bracing. Whether you prefer the responsiveness and intonation stability of V Class or the familiar character of Taylor’s older architecture, the guitars here remain true to what our reviews praise. Projection, balance, usable dynamic range, low noise floors and honest articulation remain intact.

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If you gig, record or just care about instruments that age well, the interest here is simple. You can buy a guitar you might normally consider a stretch, and you can do it without feeling like you are being upsold on cosmetics. Taylor’s Expression System 2 is still one of the few stock pickups that actually translates the guitar rather than painting over it, and that alone makes these models worth a harder look if reliability is part of your baseline.

Why pay attention at all? Because Taylor pricing tends to remain firm throughout the year. If you know the instruments, you know which ones speak to you. All this does is take the sting out of pulling the trigger.