D'Angelico

John D'Angelico was born in Little Italy, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the oldest of four children, to a hard working, God-fearing Italian family in New York. Music was in his blood, and at age 9 he was apprenticed to his grand uncle Signor Ciani, a violin and mandolin maker. His apprenticeship with these instruments became the basis of construction principles he later incorporated in his archtop guitars.

Renewed artist desire for archtop tone and a major 2011 exhibition featuring John D’Angelico at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art fueled tremendous new interest in the D’Angelico brand. http://blog.metmuseum.org/guitarheroes/john-dangelico/