D'Angelico Excel 59 Purple
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D'Angelico
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An Excel with a Bold Style, Designed for Electric Hollow Body Playing
Within the D'Angelico Excel range, the Excel 59 Viola focuses on an elegant aesthetic and construction choices typical of a "modern archtop": hollow body, Viola finish, 5-ply binding, and refined hardware. The center block enhances stability, improves sustain, and helps maintain volume control, a real advantage for stage use and moderate overdriven tones.
For Which Guitarists and Styles?
This D'Angelico is aimed at intermediate to advanced guitarists seeking an expressive and nuanced instrument, comfortable in jazz, blues, soul, vintage rock, and pop. The cutaway facilitates access to higher frets, while the ergonomic C-shaped neck suits both rich chords and melodic lines as well as double-stop licks typical of P-90 pickups.
Sound Characteristics
The combination of a spruce top and maple back and sides delivers a very musical balance: precise attack, good definition, and beautiful projection with an "airy" signature typical of hollow bodies. The center block adds sustain and tightens the low end, making the guitar more stable when pushing the amp. The two Seymour Duncan D'Angelico Great Dane P-90s (Alnico V) offer singing mids, natural bite, and touch-sensitive dynamics: clean and articulate when played softly, edgy and gritty when attacked harder. The volume and tone controls, combined with the 3-position selector switch, allow quick switching from a warm neck pickup sound to a sharper bridge tone or a balanced blend.
Recommended Compatible Accessories
To stay true to the original spirit, you can opt for an electric string set with a gauge of 10-46 (as originally specified) and plan for a standard mono jack cable for the output.
Technical specifications
| Electronics: microphone configuration | P90 P90 | Bridge / tailpiece | Fixed |
| Category | Hollow body | Electronics | Passive |
| Left handed | No | Electroacoustic | No |
| Strings | Steel | Color | Purple |
| Nbr of strings | 6 | Finishing | Glossy |
| Nbrs of frets | 22 | Hardware | Gold |
| Type | hollow body guitar | Neck thickness | 1st fret: 20 mm / 0.79"; 12th fret: 22 mm / 0.87" |
| Center block | yes | Nut | Tusq 43 mm / 1.69" |
| Cutaway | yes | Scale length | 635 mm / 25" |
| Top | spruce | Truss rod | dual action |
| Back and sides | maple | Tuners | Grover 150 Imperial |
| Width | 40.6 cm / 15.98" (406 mm / 16") | Bridge | Gold Tune-O-Matic |
| Body thickness | 2.54 cm / 1" (25.4 mm / 1") | Tailpiece | D'Angelico stepped tailpiece |
| Binding | 5-ply | Neck and bridge pickups | Seymour Duncan D'Angelico Great Dane P-90 (Cream Cover) |
| Pickguard | Tortoise Scalini (5-ply) | Magnets | Alnico V |
| Profile | C | Controls | volume and tone |
| Construction | 3-piece glued (maple/walnut/maple) | Selector switch | 3 positions |
| Fingerboard | ebony | Output | standard mono jack |
| Radius | 406 mm / 16" | Finish | Viola |
| Inlays | "small diamonds" (acrylic) | Delivered with | case |
| Frets | 22 | Weight | 10 kg |
Questions frequently asked
Is the D'Angelico Excel 59 Viola suitable for jazz and blues?
The hollow body with center block, featuring a spruce top and maple back/sides, is suitable for jazz, blues, soul, and vintage rock genres. The two Seymour Duncan Great Dane P-90 pickups with Alnico V magnets deliver singing mids and defined attack.
What pickups does this hollow body guitar have?
Two Seymour Duncan D'Angelico Great Dane P-90 pickups with cream covers are installed in the neck and bridge positions. A 3-way selector, volume, and tone controls allow managing the tones.
Does the center block limit feedback at high volume?
The center block reinforces the body stability and helps maintain control at high volume. It also provides sustain and tightens the low end, even with moderate overdrive.
What are the neck dimensions and scale length?
The scale length is 635 mm (25 inches) and the Tusq nut width is 43 mm. The glued-in maple/walnut/maple neck has a C profile, with an ebony fingerboard radius of 406 mm (16 inches). Its thickness is 20 mm at the 1st fret and 22 mm at the 12th fret.
Is the guitar delivered with a case and what cable should be used?
A case is provided with this guitar. The standard mono jack output accepts a standard mono jack cable, and the original setup uses 10-46 steel strings.
