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D’ANGELICO EXCEL SS

Guitar EDITOR’S CHOICE

Resurrected in 2011, the D’Angelico company originally won a fabled reputation in the 1930s with a line of exquisite hand-made archtops created in John D’Angelico’s tiny workshop in Little Italy, Manhattan.

Now the brand offers a selection of instruments inspired by those original D’Angelico instruments, with production taking place in Asia. This Excel SS model is created by D’Angelico’s crack

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