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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.

"A long-time player of DуAngelicos, Mel Bay asked the luthier to build him a New Yorker-sized cutaway guitar with an Excel-sized neck. After requests for the same configuration, DуAngelico introduced the Mel Bay New Yorker model, which graces the cover of Mel Bay instructional books. "