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    Reborn In The USA

    Jul 23, 2021 6 minutes
    Words Neville Marten
    Photography
    Phil Barker

    EPIPHONE FT110 FRONTIER & E230TD CASINO £3,619 & £2,399

    CONTACT Gibson PHONE +1-615-871-4500 WEB www.epiphone.com

    Epiphone guitars hold a distinct place in the hearts of people of a certain vintage. Anyone who followed the pop-music TV shows of the 60s will have seen Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Dave Davies, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and others wielding various iterations of the E230TD Casino. And those who watched McCartney’s legendary TV performance of Yesterday will have seen him playing his Texan acoustic. We don’t have a Texan here but the more elaborate Frontier, which sat neatly alongside guitars such as Gibson’s Dove and Hummingbird.

    Considering what music was created on the originals, we hope they’ll be deservedly well received

    Our Casino is a visual amalgamation of two eras of the model. At its launch in 1961, it featured black plastic-covered dog-ear P-90 pickups, a dot inlaid fingerboard and the short form of Epiphone’s headstock. But within a year, to coincide with Gibson’s upgrade of the ES-330 (which is constructionally an all-but-identical guitar),

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