page_title: Tacoma Guitars
section_title: Paisley soundhole
hierarchical_section_title: Tacoma Guitars / Design features / Paisley soundhole
caption_attribution_description: Tacoma M1 mandolin front 3
context_page_description: Tacoma Guitars was an American manufacturing company of musical instruments. It was founded in 1991 as a division of South Korean company Young Chang. Instruments were manufactured in Tacoma, Washington. The company and brand name were later acquired by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Tacoma plant closed, and production ceased, in 2008.
  Tacoma manufactured mainly acoustic guitars, although its product range extended to basses and mandolins.
context_section_description: Several of Tacoma's models featured an unusual sound hole shape, a paisley soundhole, on the left side of the upper bout. Their idea was that moving the sound hole to a relatively low-stress part of the top would increase top strength, reduce bracing, and make the top more resonant. Tacoma called guitars that use the paisley soundhole the Wing Series.
caption: Tacoma M1 mandolin with paisley sound hole on the upper bout.
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