The traditional style headstock is quite a large affair making it slightly top heavy but the tuners were good and stable. Even unplugged the guitar resonates well, you can feel every note that is played, which is great. The weight factor is not only good for saving your shoulders and back, it’s also great for resonance and increased sustain. The body and top are both made from laminated maple and that coupled with the fact it's arguably not really a semi-acoustic at all, having no centre block (unlike, say, the Gibson 335 which it vaguely resembles) makes it very light in weight. Fit and finish throughout was excellent and it will certainly turn heads. That finish plus the trapeze tailpiece and two F holes give it that real retro look. Our sample, which we were kindly loaned by the retailer DV247, was finished in a lovely deep cherry. To start at the beginning, the Casino is certainly a cool looking guitar.

As always, be sure to check out the video to hear and see this guitar for yourself. Since then it has kept reappearing so certainly deserves that overused word 'classic'. It's one of Epiphone's enduring models and was used extensively in the latter part of the Beatles' recording years - listen to the Revolver album or anything after that and you will hear the Casino. In this review we're checking out the Casino semi-automatic electric. For a while Epiphones were made side by side with Gibsons in Kalamazoo but these days they are made in China and are incredibly cheap compared with their US-produced Gibson equivalents. I think it’s fair to say that they are now known as the cheaper version of Gibson guitars, having been acquired by Brand G back in the late 1950s. Epiphone has made instruments for every style of popular music but its golden era was when it was king of the Jazz guitar back before WWII. They offer up classic jangle when you pick clean, but have an unmistakable bark when you hit them hard.Epiphone is one of America's oldest instrument brands, technically having been around since 1873, but in practice having made a name for itself in the USA in the early years of the 20 th Century. But the real magic happens in the iconic dog ear P-90 pickups. The hollow maple body gives you a sound that's warm yet snappy, and the slim mahogany neck is comfortable for anything from riffing to rhythm. The band used it to great success on many of their hits, and now, later generations are discovering the allure of the Casino. The Epiphone Casino hollowbody electric guitar is most famous for the time it spent in the hands of the Beatles.

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