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Epiphone once again reissued the Wilshire beginning in 2009. Several models were introduced: the limited edition Pro, '66 Worn (with or without "tremotone" (vibrato)) and '62 USA. In 2011, Epiphone released the Frank Iero signature Wilshire "Phant-o-Matic". [6] Epiphone re-released the Wilshire, along with the Coronet and Crestwood in 2020.
Epiphone (/ ˌ ɛ. p ə. f oʊ n /) is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908.
The Joe Pass Epiphone Emperor II is an archtop guitar, like a 175, but with certain unique features which included: [1] Gold-plated hardware; Multiple bound body (top and back), neck, f-holes, and peghead; Laminated spruce top; Maple laminate, hollow body (figured maple veneer) Dual humbuckers; Raised pickguard with facsimile of Joe Pass' signature
At the same time of the Melody Maker, Gibson's sister brand Epiphone made a version of the guitar named the Olympic. Initially virtually identical to the double cut Melody Makers, these guitars eventually developed an asymmetrical body with a slightly larger upper horn with the Olympic Special, and a higher-end model which shared a body with the later Epiphone Coronet, Wilshire, and Crestwoods ...
Dave Davies can be seen playing an Epiphone Casino in the video for "All Day and All of the Night". Tom DeLonge (Blink-182, Angels & Airwaves) uses his signature ES-333 in both Epiphone and Gibson versions. Pete Doherty (The Libertines/Babyshambles) uses a Coronet as his main electric guitar. Bob Dylan used different acoustic guitars from Epiphone.
The Epiphone Sheraton is a thinline semi-hollow body electric guitar. Though the Sheraton and all its variations were introduced under the ownership of the Gibson Guitar Corporation , Epiphone is the exclusive manufacturer.
The Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass is a 4-string hollowbody bass guitar manufactured by Epiphone. Jack Casady approached Gibson (parent company of Epiphone) with the basic design, inspired by Casady's experience with the 1970s-era Gibson Les Paul Signature bass .
Introduced in 1989 [2] after Epiphone production moved to Korea in cooperation with the Samick Corporation, the G-400 has been in continuous production for thirty years.. Upon introduction, it featured dot fretboard inlays, two open-coil humbuckers, green key tuners with the Epiphone logo stamped on their backs, a differently shaped truss rod cover with "Gibson" printed vertically, black ...