Epiphone Casino Review

The Epiphone Casino, introduced in 1961, is a close copy of an existing Gibson model-in this case, the ES-330, which had made its own first appearance some two years Previously. Outwardly, both guitars somewhat resembled the Gibson ES-335 although the 330 and Casino were true hollow-bodies, lacking 335's center block. They were also fitted with single-coil, P-90 pickups, rather than the 335's humbuckers.

The distinctive "dog-ear" pickup covers on the first Casinos were black, and the instruments also boasted "dot" fret markers and mock-tortoise-shell guards. These features were all changed within a few years.

The Casino shown in photograph, dating from 1964, has a white pickguard, nickel cov­ered P-90s, and "parallelogram" neck inlays.

The Casino is sometimes described as "the guitar that put Epiphone on the map, and while this statement takes no account of the company's distinguished earlier reputation, its modest "ES-330 clone" was certainly to prove highly successful with jazz, country and (increasingly) rock players.

 

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