Epiphone Guitars: The Archtop of Archtop Guitars

By Jane Claire


It can't be denied that everyone knows what a guitar looks like and the kind of music that it can offer. It is inevitably present in all kinds and modes of genre that are being played nowadays. A few of them would be the oldies music, Flamenco, Alternative, Pop Music, Speed Metal, Slow Music, Country, Jazz, Fusion and all types of the Rock genre. This instrument has been here in this world for 500 decades now and it is one of the pioneers when it comes to authentic music. It has certainly left a legacy that kids are now looking up to.

There are a lot of categories and shapes that a guitar can belong to. Electric and acoustic are the most popular categories out there. One can easily determine an acoustic guitar because of its hollow body and this guitar type is further broken down into: classical and the steel stringed guitars. Having strings of nylon and a wider size for its neck makes a guitar a classic one. The other acoustic guitar type would have strings of steel and their necks would definitely be narrower. Thus, you are free to choose from the said cat

If you want a solid bodied guitar and experience the power of an amplifier, then you should go for electric guitars. By the way, Archtop electric guitars have both the qualities of an acoustic and electric guitar because of its hollow body. One of the well known brands of archtop electric guitars would be Epiphone.

The Epiphone Company started way back in the 1870s. Its founder Anastasios Stathopoulos was making his personal Lioutos, fiddles and lutes back then. In the year 1903, he came to US and continued to run his business. He left everything to this son who is Epaminondas. Epaminondas is the mastermind of the Epiphone Banjo Company which came to life in 1924. In 1928, Epiphone started making guitars for the public and their customers loved their product because of its high quality. Unfortunately, Epiphone was purchased by its rival which is Gibson Guitars when Epa died on 1957.

The greatest outcome of Gibson's purchase was the formulation of the sleek Casio. This guitar made the Epiphone line even more popular. It was patterned after the Gibson ES-330 and it produced a rich sound that made it the greatest rhythm instrument that you can ever have at that time. Even the famous Beatles band was convinced of its performance so they used this item with other products from Rickenbacker.




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