Extend your range with the brand new Taylor Guitars Baritone 8-String. Featuring a Grand Symphony body with fancy-sounding Indian rosewood topped with Sitka spruce back and sides, the Baritone 8-String puts the spirit of a traditional baritone guitar in a pretty package.

The guitar has a longer-scaled 27-inch neck and Taylor-designed baritone bracing; it's tuned from B to B and features additional octave strings paired along with the third and fourth (D and A) strings, providing an extended range of sounds.

According to the company, having the two added octave strings is "really, really cool because you can either accentuate those octaves or stay away from them. The beauty of this guitar is that it goes low and those two strings brighten it up, but they don't sound too 'octave-y'. It doesn't give you that 12-string effect as much as it really just extends the range because, as a baritone, the octaves aren't really high. It fills the guitar out and gives it a nice (tonal) spread."

The Baritone 8-String is tuned a fourth below standard guitar tuning, which in turn allows you to play songs in a lower register. The 8-string beast includes a mother-of-pearl peghead inlay, diamond-shaped fretboard inlays, a three-ring abalone rosette, and abalone-dotted bridge pins. Showcase features include Indian rosewood binding, a bone nut and saddle, and an all-gloss finish.

The guitar is amplified with the Taylor Expression System pickup and strung with ELIXIR Baritone strings. If eight strings are too much for you, this model is also offered in a standard six-string version.

Taylor expects to make the guitar available sometime this winter for $3,998 MSRP. The alternative Baritone 6-String will list at $3,798.