Featuring Dogear P-90T Classic™ pickups and a 5-ply Maple body with Basswood top bracing. Shortly afterwards, 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 Casino was first adopted by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones who used a Casino to record the demo for “Satisfaction” at Chess Records in Chicago. 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. Since 1961, the legendary Casino has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a rock ‘n’ roll standard. The current Casinos are good entry-level and intermediate instruments and are still one of Epiphones best-selling guitar models.The Epiphone Casino still has the same classic look, sound, and features that have made it the go-to guitar for two generations of artists including Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher, Keith Richards and Gary Clark, Jr. These guitars, although still adequate instruments, are not to the same standard as the real Casinos produced in the 1960s. Beyond 1969, Casino manufacture was moved to Japan, and later Korea and China. Original Kalamazoo-built Casinos are highly collectable, and much-loved as professional-grade instruments. Vintage Epiphone Casino sale prices can be pretty high. John Lennon, in particular was often pictured with his Casino, most notably in his Apple rooftop performance of 1969.

It's legendary status was cemented in the mid-1960s by the patronage of members of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and many more. Used Epiphone Casino Hollow Body Electric Guitar. Go all out this holiday: Call 8663884445 or chat to save on orders of 499+ SHOP. The vast majority were dual-pickup instruments, however some early examples were fitted with just one P90 pickup. Most Epiphone Casino are eligible for free shipping. It was first produced in 1961, at the Gibson Kalamazoo plant it was based on the Gibson ES-330TD, which was also built there. The Epiphone Casino is an absolutely iconic model, perhaps the best-known Epiphone model ever shipped.

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