D'Angelico Excel Mini DC Viola

An Excel Mini DC: The D'Angelico Spirit in a More Compact Version

With the Excel series, D'Angelico offers instruments with an elegant style and meticulous finish, designed for demanding guitarists. The Mini DC carries the brand's semi-hollow DNA but in a smaller, more manageable size, while maintaining the integrity of a center block construction for more stable playing in bands and on stage.

For Which Guitarists and Styles?

This Excel Mini DC is aimed at intermediate to advanced musicians who want an easy-to-handle semi-hollow guitar capable of covering jazz, blues, rock, and pop. Its short scale and double cutaway enhance comfort, while the coil split options allow exploration of clearer, snappier tones without changing guitars.

The Sound

The combination of maple (top, back, and sides) provides precise attack, brightness, and excellent definition, ideal for clear chords and melodic lines that stand out. The center block enhances sustain and reduces unwanted resonances, making the guitar more comfortable with overdrive and higher volumes than a traditional hollow body.

The Seymour Duncan 59 pickups deliver a vintage-style humbucker tone: singing mids, tight lows, and detailed highs. The push-pull tone controls (coil splitting) expand the palette toward more airy and cutting sounds, perfect for light funk, pop arpeggios, or sharper rhythms, while retaining the warmth of the semi-hollow base.

Recommended Compatible Accessories

To stay as close as possible to the original feel, favor a set of D'Addario EXP110 strings (or an equivalent with a gauge of 10-46). A high-quality 6.35 mm mono instrument cable is also recommended to fully exploit the pickups' dynamics.

Technical specifications

Electronics: microphone configuration	HH	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	semi-hollow guitar	Fingerboard	ebony
Construction	center block	Inlays	" small diamonds " (acrylic)
Cutaway	double	Tuners	Grover 109 Super Rotomatic
Top	maple	Bridge	Tune-O-Matic Gold
Back and sides	maple	Tailpiece	D'Angelico StopBar
Thickness	2.5 cm / 25 mm / 0.98"	Pickguard	Scalini Tortoise (5-ply)
Width	35.5 cm / 355 mm / 13.98" (provided value: 355 cm)	Pickups	2 USA Seymour Duncan 59 humbuckers
Binding	5-ply	Controls	2 volumes and 2 push-pull tone controls (coil splitting)
Profile	C	Selector	3-position
Truss rod	double action	Output	standard mono jack
Neck thickness	1st fret 20 mm / 0.79"; 12th fret 22 mm / 0.87"	Finish	Viola
Scale length	24" / 609 mm	Headstock overlay	Cupola
Nut width	43 mm / 1.69" (Tusq)	Comes with	case
Number of frets	22	Weight	10 kg
Radius	12" / 305 mm