The Epiphone Casino is a guitar that put Epiphone on the roll. Ever since The Beatles purchased three Casinos back in 1965, this semi-solid Epi model has taken on a life of its own. Used extensively by George Harrison and John Lennon on the Revolver album the Casino helped to give these records their “electric” sound.
Paul McCartney even purchased a left handed model and played it on some of the guitar solos that appeared on Revolver. Fitted with two vintage P-90 single-coil pickups, the Casino still delivers those Beatle-esque tones at a price that almost every player can afford.
It is made with a select Maple body and top with F-holes, trapeze bridge, Mahogany neck (24-3/4″ scale), neck and body binding, two volume and two tone controls, and parallelogram inlays. This instrument also has a limited lifetime warranty and no bag is provided with the instrument.
Epiphone is now a subsidiary of Gibson Corporation, its once biggest rival and competitor. The “Casino” was the first model that Gibson manufactured after they acquired the Epiphone Company and brand name. The Casino Sunburst electric guitar has a beautiful full warm sound that only a classic semi-acoustic electric guitar of this quality can have. With its traditional classy double ‘F’ sound holes or ‘F-holes’, the tone the guitar delivers is second to none and still sounds quintessentially Beatlesque.
Paul McCartney still records in the studio and plays live in concert with his original Casino Sunburst, choose to perform his song “Yesterday” in current concerts with it in 2009. The Epiphone Casino Sunburst electric guitar is a fantastic example of a beautiful sounding and good looking classic Sunburst guitar.
You too can grab these Epiphone six-strings as it is a symbol of class and glamour. Quality rest assured you can never stop playing it!