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GALLERY: Guitar Heroes - Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York

Guitars from D’Angelico, D’Aquisto, Monteleone, and Italian craftsmen featured in The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Guitar Heroes Exhibit. Photos courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Monteleone Sun King, 2000
"Perhaps Monteleoneуs best-known guitar, the Sun King is a 16"" archtop accented with alternating stripes of natural blonde maple and macassar ebony on the headstock, pickguard, and tailpiece. "