What is the Guitar Ebony Project of Taylor all about? And, why should you care?

Isn’t it awesome seeing people or companies care for our mother earth? What I mean is that they use sustainable products to preserve the beauty and function of our land – those green trees, beautiful forests, and so on. Taylor is not only popularly known for producing and designing top-quality acoustic guitars made of superior tonewoods, but for showing their love and support to the environment as well.

Acoustic guitars are mostly made of woods, like rosewood, ebony, and mahogany, which come from tropical areas of the world. But if you will notice these days, the forests are in jeopardy due to various factors, including the absence of good governance and increasing patterns of the global ingestion.

Taylor deeply recognizes this issue, which is why they came up with Ebony project to help our forests maintain its look and health. Bob Taylor – the co-founder of Taylor guitars – had traveled the world to further know about the veracities of obtaining woods, starting from the various management practices to the various communities that depend on forest resources as a means of their support.

As a company that takes advantage of the aesthetic and functional use of forest resources, Taylor knows its responsibility to run in a legal, transparent way as well as to be a good agent and partner to its dealers. The Arts Music Store is one of the largest Taylor Guitar dealers in Canada.

What is Ebony Project?

Taylor Guitar Ebony Project is simply an interesting 8-part story digital experience. It takes people on a virtual excursion to Cameroon’s African country to discover more about the efforts of Taylor to upgrade the ebony trade after buying a swamsill way back in 2011. The story combines awesome shots of the Congo Basin Rainforest with photos, video interviews, and written storytelling. This offers people a deeper gratitude as well as the effort involved in obtaining ebony that was used for crafting music instruments.

Also, included in the Ebony project is the path of Taylor towards more sustainable sourcing methods of ebony – starting from the decision to co-procure the Crelicam ebony sawmill through Spanish wood dealer Madinter to the quest for innovative research about the ecology of ebony to the upgrading the operation of milling. All of these had resulted in a groundbreaking community planting programs with the goal of putting thousands of ebony trees within the ground for more than years. Moreover, the Ebony project of Taylor gives emphasis on the importance of giving the Crelicam neighbors of Taylor the training and tools needed for improving their financial living and generating a more sustainable future for their own families as well as to their native communities.

Bob Taylor is one of the main storytellers in the various videos featured on the Taylor Guitar Ebony project. According to him, has the confidence and dedication to make a better future for ebony along with their Crelucam partner Madinter. For over 44 years of being in the guitar companies, he is happy providing clients (specifically musicians and guitarists) with the high-quality products suitable to their budget and personal requirements – of course, while improving the lifecycle of ebony.

A former Director at Greenpeace and the Director of Natural Resources Sustainability, Scott Paul, is also part of the project and has appeared in numerous video segments. He added perceptions with regard to a community-based ebony replanting inventiveness that is being established as a part of the assorted model of Cameroon’s agroforestry. Scott Paul also stressed that products such as acoustic guitars offer an exceptionally persuasive platform to support sustainable practices for the coming years.

With its aesthetic look and sturdiness, ebony has been one of the most popular woods that manufacturers used for designing stringed musical instruments like acoustic guitars. As a company that merely depends on ebony and any other tropical tonewoods to designs various guitars, Taylor clearly understands that it has a huge responsibility to be a virtuous agent of these important natural resources to promote sustainability.

Bob Taylor and its team hope that with their Ebony project, they can be able to provide everyone with a deeper knowledge of where ebony comes from (its ecosystems and lives) and why it is important to develop a replant program.