ID: 700009127 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009127	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Archtop Guitar, Centura Deluxe model (archtop guitar; James D’Aquisto (American, 1935–1995); 1995; )

Note: In April 1995, while visiting California to work with Fender on a line of guitars that would carry his name, James D’Aquisto died of an epileptic seizure. He was fifty-nine, the same age at which John D’Angelico had died more than three decades earlier. At the time, two guitars remained virtually finished, hanging in the spray booth in his workshop—a Centura and a Centura Deluxe. Both models feature distinctively shaped sound holes that are nearly triangular and have headstocks with broken pediments, echoing a feature found on Italian American instruments dating back more than a century. The Centura has a seventeen-inch body, while the Centura Deluxe is eighteen inches and also has two decorative inlaid lines on the tailpiece, pickguard, and headstock. Later owners of the instruments had them finished by the luthier John Monteleone.

Titles:

Archtop Guitar, Centura Deluxe model (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

archtop guitar [300404894] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: plucked, <lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked>, guitars)

Classifications:

music / musical instruments (preferred)

Creation Date: 1995

Creator Display:

James D’Aquisto (American, 1935–1995) [preferred]

creator D'Aquisto, James (American guitar maker, 1935-1995) [500372586]

Locations:

Private Collection: Rudy Pensa collection, New York (New York City, New York state, United States) [500372851] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Spruce, maple, ebony; blonde finish, cutaway

	spruce (wood) [300012726]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, softwood)

	maple (wood) [300012236]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	ebony (wood) [300012055]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: W. 18 in. (45.7 cm)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

musical (preferred)

utilitarian objects (isness)

Creation Number: Centura Deluxe model; serial number 1257

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Centura Deluxe Model Archtop Guitar

Sources and Contributors:
Archtop Guitar, Centura Deluxe model	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guitar Heroes (2011)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guitar Heroes (2011)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guitar Heroes (2011)