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D'ANGELICO
A 1949 JOHN D'ANGELICO EXCEL ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC GUITAR SERIAL NO. 1861 IN A SUNBURST FINISH.
Single cutaway maple body with multiple bindings, carved spruce top with bound f holes, maple neck, twenty fret bound ebony fingerboard with block inlays and zero fret, headstock inlaid with D'Angelico New York and Excel motif, Grover tuners, ebony bridge, tailpiece and pickguard. With black hardshell case.
This guitar has been owned by Chuck Wayne throughout his playing career. It has the original receipt from D'Angelico made out to Charles Wayne, 589 Walton Ave, Bronx 51, New York, dated November 10th 1949, specifying one D'Angelico Excel Cutaway, serial no. 1861, $650. It is featured on the cover of Chuck Wayne's album String Fever and has been used on recordings with Tony Bennet, Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Simms, Tommy Flanagan and many other artists.
A 1949 JOHN D'ANGELICO EXCEL ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC GUITAR SERIAL NO. 1861 IN A SUNBURST FINISH.
Single cutaway maple body with multiple bindings, carved spruce top with bound f holes, maple neck, twenty fret bound ebony fingerboard with block inlays and zero fret, headstock inlaid with D'Angelico New York and Excel motif, Grover tuners, ebony bridge, tailpiece and pickguard. With black hardshell case.
This guitar has been owned by Chuck Wayne throughout his playing career. It has the original receipt from D'Angelico made out to Charles Wayne, 589 Walton Ave, Bronx 51, New York, dated November 10th 1949, specifying one D'Angelico Excel Cutaway, serial no. 1861, $650. It is featured on the cover of Chuck Wayne's album String Fever and has been used on recordings with Tony Bennet, Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Simms, Tommy Flanagan and many other artists.