Like lutherie itself, John Monteleone has been greatly influenced by Italian men, working with Jimmy D’Aquisto in the ’70s and Mario Maccaferri in the ’80s. He was recently featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And he’s been a GAL member for a total of thirty-six years.
▪ bio current as of 2014
2014
AL#117 p.52
James Condino John Monteleone
▪ A history of the ellipse soundhole cutter device in lutherie and it’s lineage from D’Angelico to D’Aquisto to John Monteleone.
2013
AL#113 p.45
John Monteleone
▪ D’Aquisto’s changes to his traditional New Yorker and Excel models in the late 1970s included the adjustable sliding wedge bridge design concept.
2013
AL#114 p.3
John Monteleone
▪ John Monteleone clarifies the details of his D’Aquisto wedge bridge article in AL#113 by giving additional credit where credit is due.
2011
AL#108 p.35
John Monteleone
▪ Jimmy D’Aquisto’s unique exploration of the building of classical guitars.
2011
AL#105 p.64
John Monteleone James Buckland
▪ Information on a Mario Maccaferri wood viola made in 1925.
2008
AL#96 p.68
Linda Manzer John Monteleone
▪ Tracing the origins of elusive James D’Aquisto planes and other D’Aquisto factoids.
2007
AL#91 p.8 read this article
John Monteleone
▪ Ace archtop builder Monteleone is an advocate of side soundports (holes in the sides, in addition to the front soundhole) and has employed them for over a decade. His article includes personal background, developmental work on his sideported instruments, and construction techniques. With 3 photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
2000
AL#63 p.5
John Monteleone
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2000
AL#62 p.6 BRB6 p.32
John Monteleone
▪ No one in the field of archtop guitars is more respected than Monteleone. This article represents his full thoughts on the instrument as of 1998. With 12 photos and 4 drawings.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1999
AL#58 p.58 BRB5 p.501
John Monteleone
▪ A good method for finding the height of mandolin family sides using a violin soundpost height gauge.
1998
AL#53 p.14 BRB5 p.172
John Monteleone
▪ A photo-essay of 8 D’Aquisto archtops formerly owned by Paul Gudelsky, set up to show the progression of Jimmy’s designs. With 8 photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1998
AL#53 p.18 BRB5 p.176
John Monteleone
▪ A world-renowned maker of archtops who knew D’Aquisto well offers a more technical examination of Jimmy’s design evolution. With 3 photos and a drawing.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s fifty best articles published before 2010.
1993
AL#35 p.63 BRB3 p.503 read this article
John Monteleone
▪ Remembering Mario Maccaferri, creator of guitars made by Selmer of Paris and made famous by Django Reinhardt, major contributor to the field of injection molding plastic, and overall self made man.
1990
LT p.114
Steve Andersen Chris Brandt R.E. Brune Ted Davis Jeffrey R. Elliott James Flynn Bob Gleason Hideo Kamimoto Robert Lundberg Frederick C. Lyman Jr. John Monteleone Robert Ruck Richard Schneider Ervin Somogyi Al Stancel Robert Steinegger Janet Toon
▪ Seventeen established luthiers were asked to list ten hand tools, five power tools, and five supplies used as tools. This info was used to determine the most essential tools, including specifics, model and size, source, and any special uses.
1989
AL#17 p.54 BRB2 p.480
John Monteleone
▪ Top thickness pattern of the D’Angelico guitar compared to that of a mandolin.
1986
AL#6 p.34 BRB1 p.227
John Monteleone
▪ Monteleone’s lecture covers personal background, after which a question/answer segment gets to the specifics of archtop design and construction.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s fifty best articles published before 2010.
1986
AL#6 p.38 BRB1 p.222
Ted Davis John Monteleone
▪ This lengthy interview sheds more light on the archtop maker’s background and furnishes information about his mandolins.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.