It is a genuine hollow body electric guitar with single coil P90 pickups. It has a very heavy sound and is a very good rhythm guitar due to its fairly thick sound when strummed. The Casino was made in the same shape and configuration as a Gibson ES-330 guitar.
The most famous Epiphone model introduced by Gibson after taking over was the Casino. The other Kalamazoo-made Epiphones had technical or cosmetic relationship with the similar Gibson version. Some specific examples of Gibson-made Epiphone instruments from this period includes the Epiphone Casino (similar to the Gibson ES-330), the Epiphone Cortez (similar to the Gibson B-25), the Epiphone Olympic Special (similar to the Gibson Melody Maker), the Epiphone Sorrento (similar to the Gibson ES-125TC, except for a few cosmetic changes), and the Epiphone Texan (similar to the Gibson J-45, apart from a change in scale-length). They shared the Gibson serial-number sequence. These Epiphone instruments were effectively identical to the relevant Gibson versions, made with same timber, materials and components, and by the same people as the contemporary equivallent Gibson guitars. Only solid guitars with flat tops and backs were made at the Elenor Street plant (both Gibson and Epiphone) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The company was bought out by their main rival, Gibson in 1957.Įpiphone instruments made between 19 were made in the Gibson factory at 225 Parsons Street and on Elenor Street. In 1951, a four month long strike forced a relocation of Epiphone from New York to Philadelphia. Control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo. They produced their first guitars in 1928. The company produced its Recording Line of Banjos in 1924, and, four years later, took on the name of the "Epiphone Banjo Company".
Just after the end of World War I, the company started to make banjos. After two years, the company was known as The House Of Stathopoulos.
Anastasios died in 1915, and his son, Epaminondas, took over. Stathopoulos moved to the United States of America in 1903, and continued to make his original instruments, as well as mandolins, from Long Island City in Queens, New York. 1945 Epiphone Blackstone archtop guitar, made in New YorkĮpiphone started in 1873, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey), where Greek founder Anastasios Stathopoulos made his own fiddles and lutes ( oud, laouto).
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