This guitar was handmade for the very famous Grant
Green in 1972. As Rudy Pensa tells the story, Grant
Green’s son “told me about when he took a trip to
D’Aquisto’s house with his father to pick up the instrument.
He loved it so much that he spent days without
putting the guitar down.”
This particular D’Aquisto is an 18” New Yorker in an
amazing Tobacco Sunburst finish. The guitar has an
incredible spruce top, beautiful flamed maple back and
sides, maple neck with ebony fingerboard, and mother
of pearl inlays. On the fingerboard you can see Grant
Green’s name on mother of pearl. The headstock has
the “New Yorker” inlayed in mother of pearl as well. Not
only the guitar is extremely well made, but also it has an
incredible sound.
After Grant Green’s death, the guitar belonged to
George Benson’s collection for many years, until Rudy
Pensa traveled to Arizona to photograph Benson’s collection,
and he agreed to sell the guitar to Rudy. Now it
belongs to Rudy, and it’s back in the family, among others,
D’Angelico, D’Aquisto and Monteleone.
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