D'Angelico

Our Discount Price is $8,245.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $7,995.00.

And now for something entirely different:   We have never seen one of these before.    John D’Angelico, considered the finest independent guitar builder of the 20th Century, or at least for the first two-thirds of that century, made a keystone model that he called “New Yorker.”   This was an elaborately decorated instrument, made of the most select woods and built on a large platform (possibly because John was vertically challenged) measuring approximately 18” in body width. $30,985 at our Discount Price, or $29,995 at our Cash Discount Price.

John D’Angelico (1905-1964) was, of course, the premier independent guitar builder of the first three quarters of the 20th century. He began his career at the age of 9 by working as an apprentice in the roundbelly mandolin, guitar and violin factory of his uncle Cianni, on Kenmare Street in Manhattan, and was eventually promoted to shop foreman.

What is as beautiful as a D’Angelico mandolin? The last numbered mandolin D'Angelico entered in his log book was #174 which was dated 1954, and then he entered #185 dated 4/19/52 which doesn't say "mandolin" but it does say "Pts." Which might mean a "mandolin with 2 points." In the annals of great mandolins of our ancestral past, the John D’Angelico hand-made stands apart in the hierarchy of historiography. It also sounds marvelous.THIS WAS $9500 BUT NOW ON SALE: