Taylor Guitars TaylorSense App 4+

I have 3 Taylor Guitars on my TaylorSense system. It helps me automatically monitor 3 essential areas of my guitars Health and Performance: 1) Humidity - living in Colorado Springs or any other dry climate knowing that your humidification system is keeping your instrument between 40-60% humidity is vital. This was not that important when living in Southern Louisiana, but crucial in Western states. 2) Battery Life - when your battery life gets below 30% TaylorSense gives you a warning. Nothing is worse than having your battery die during a plugged in performance. 3) Impact Incidents - the system provides you with documentation of the time and severity of the impact event. This documentation helps you prove to third party handlers (think airlines) of your instrument that in fact they were the cause of this impact incident while in care, custody and control of your guitar. It is also helpful in processing a claim with your own insurance company if you have your guitar insured on a Personal Articles Floater attached to your Homeowners or Renters Insurance policy. The system is very easy to install in your guitar with step by step audio videos provided Taylor and help provided by their customer service area to help you along the way. At less than $100 per system this is a great asset to have on board your guitar. Enjoy! David Joffrion Colorado Springs, CO

Keeping your guitar in the right humidity and temperature range is the most important thing you can do to keep your guitar safe. TaylorSense alerts you to when you need to make a change before a broken guitar tells you, after it is too late. The history of hourly readings is kept and displayable so you can determine if you are close. The device also tells if your guitar has suffered impact. That won’t help you avoid the impact but will alert you to check over the guitar to make sure it is structurally ok and will help explain any new dings.
The only negative I have is something easily fixed by Taylor, I need to get my glasses to see the numbers. The text contrast is low, the ability to view in landscape is not available and zoom is not allowed. Fix that and it is perfect.

I have multiple units. The system works best with my iPhone. It’s fast and connects to my guitars quickly on most occasions. Using my Galaxy is another story. It takes a long time to boot and longer to connect to multiple guitars. It helps to turn my iPhone off if I want to connect to the Galaxy. When I travel, it’s possible to monitor my guitars at home if I leave my Galaxy connected, next to the guitars, and take my iPhone with me. This works for a while, then one by one the guitars will drop off and fall to reconnect. A word of caution: these devices have a five percent humidity range. I start getting alerts on some guitars before the others at the low end. Then I get alerts on the others first at the high end. One final note: you will occasionally get a temperature alert that is obviously wrong. It’s hard to believe that one guitar is boiling while the guitars on either side are still reading 74 degrees. This is a known problem according to the manufacturer contact I talked with.