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The Collection Online, Archtop Guitar ,James D'Aquisto (American, New York 1935–1995 Corona, California)

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/506807

Archtop Guitar

Maker: James D'Aquisto (American, New York 1935–1995 Corona, California)

Date: 1993

Geography: Greenport, New York, United States

Medium: Spruce, maple, ebony

Dimensions: W. 17 in.

Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted

Credit Line: Gift of Steve Miller, 2012

Accession Number: 2012.246

On view in Gallery 684

During the final years of his life the famed James D'Aquisto created a remarkable series of guitars that were a radical departure from traditional design. The twenty-four instruments represent the full maturity of his skill as a maker and his concept of eschewing metal and plastic hardware in favor of all natural materials. D'Aquisto also broke with traditional guitar architecture, which had been based largely on Art Deco motifs popularized in the 1930s, by using new shapes for sound holes, a sleeker overall outline, asymmetrical lines, and an expanded palette of finish colors. This magnificent example has a stunning natural to honey sunburst finish and, unusual for D'Aquisto in those years, decorative inlaid maple strips on the macassar ebony hardware pieces. The headstock has a heart-shaped cutout, a motif that occurs on only one other D'Aquisto instrument. The guitar was finished and signed by D'Aquisto on November 23, 1993, and was subsequently purchased by D'Aquisto's good friend the rock and roll musician Steve Miller, who has donated it to the museum to be "played and enjoyed."

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Recent Acquisition: PRS GuitarJayson Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator, Department of Musical Instruments

Jayson Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator, Department of Musical Instruments

Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014

Electric Guitar. PRS Guitars (American). Stevensville, Maryland, United States. 2013. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Warren and Kateryna Esanu, 2013 (2013.974)

I first met the guitar manufacturer Paul Reed Smith at a NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention in Anaheim, California, several years ago. I had the opportunity to visit with him about his guitars and the company he founded. He began building electric guitars in the 1970s, when he was in college, and showed his instruments to many of the top guitarists of the day, who appreciated his work. In 1985, he founded PRS guitars, and has gone on to have a major influence in the music world.

The Museum was recently able to accept into its collection of musical instruments a custom-made electric guitar made by PRS Guitars. Like all of PRS guitars, it is made of beautiful wood, in this case a curly red maple top with an African ribbon mahogany back. It is also decorated with beautiful inlaid birds, made of mammoth ivory, for fret markers; and the entire body has paua heart abalone purfling. The instrument has an attractive gold finish, which Paul calls a "Light Tiger Eye Micro Burst" finish.

In the last few decades of the twentieth century, Paul Reed Smith was introducing new models, aesthetic designs, and finishes to electric guitars, even as other large manufacturers such as Gibson and Fender were still building guitars on their traditional—and famed—models dating to the middle of the twentieth century. PRS was pushing forward, and has found success through continuing to introduce new electric guitars for contemporary players of all genres.

The custom electric guitar was given to the Museum by Warren and Kateryna Esanu, supporters of the Museum and friends of Paul Reed Smith. To celebrate the gift, the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin played a short demonstration of the guitar in the Temple of Dendur, accompanied by Gary Husband on the piano. We are extremely pleased to be able to welcome this guitar into the collection.

John McLaughlin demonstrates a custom-made electric guitar by PRS Guitars. Accompanied by Gary Husband.

Department(s): Musical Instruments

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Early American Guitars The Instruments of C. F. Martin

The exhibition is made possible by The Martin Guitar Company.

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Sunday at the Met—Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin

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Early American Guitars

The Instruments of C. F. Martin

January 14–December 7, 2014

Purchase advance tickets to avoid waiting in admission lines. Exhibitions are free with Museum admission.

Christian Frederick Martin, founder of the great American guitar firm C. F. Martin & Co., was the son of a cabinetmaker in Markneukirchen, Saxony. Martin learned to build instruments from the famed Johann Georg Stauffer in Vienna. Due to the restrictive guilds in Markneukirchen, Martin moved to the United States in 1833, settling first in New York City and later moving to Nazareth, Pennsylvania. In the United States, Martin encountered the Spanish-style guitar and incorporated elements from that tradition into his own Viennese style of instrument construction. The result was a new form of the guitar, a style that would become important as a basis for other American makers of the instrument. This exhibition includes approximately thirty-five instruments from the Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several private collections.

Read related blog posts on Of Note, the Musical Instruments Department's blog.

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