Featuring Dogear P-90T Classic™ pickups and a 5-ply maple body with basswood top bracing. Shortly afterward, John Lennon and George Harrison bought Casinos for the Beatles' 1966 world tour. Howlin' Wolf took a Casino on his first tour of the UK, appearing on Thank Your Lucky Stars. The Epiphone range of the 1960s consisted of several guitars based on the pre-Gibson Stathopoulos-era guitars, and a number closely resembling the Gibson guitars of the same time all were produced in the same factory in Kalamazoo, MI, USA. Although based on the calssic Gibson ES-335 the Casino is completely hollow on the inside giving it a. Its great vale price and ability to deliver pro grade rock tones with a semi hollow design revolutionized guitars at the time. The Casino was adopted by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones who used a Casino to record the demo for “Satisfaction” at Chess Records in Chicago. The Epiphone Casino is one of the longest lasting guitars in their catalogue for a good reason. 1971 Gibson ES-175 Cherry Sunburst Finish Vintage Hollowbody Guitar w/OHSC. First introduced in 1961, the Casino was just one of several new thinline archtops designed and produced at the company’s adopted new factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan that it shared with one-time competitor and new partner, Gibson. 1963 Epiphone Casino E230TD Sunburst Bigsby Electric Guitar w/HSC. Since 1961, the legendary Casino has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a rock ‘n’ roll standard.
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