Acoustically, there’s a pleasing balance and longer sustain than some examples of its type, and when amplified this translates into the kind of addictive white-knuckle ride that Casino and ES-330 devotees live for. The fingerboard binding is slightly thicker than we’d like and the ‘board edges would be more welcoming if they were rolled but we soon forget all about that as the Casino’s rounded C neck profile is just about perfect. Then again, if you ask Casino players such as Gary Clark Jr, Barrie Cadogan or Teenage Fanclub’s Raymond McGinley, they’ll probably tell you that struggling to tame a hollowbody on the edge of feedback is all part of the fun, likewise battling with the Casino’s 16th fret neck join. This makes hollowbody guitars more viable today than they have been at almost any time since the Epiphone Casino first rolled out of Kalamazoo in 1961. These days, of course, stage volumes in most live venues are more conservative than ever before and, for a new breed of guitarists, the lion’s share of public performances take place via social media.

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That said, like many feedback-prone hollowbody designs and its close cousin the Gibson ES-330, the Casino’s popularity waned considerably in the 1970s and 80s when hair was long and stacks were loud and high. Obviously there are better quality guitars by Gibson, but the sound of the Epiphone Casino it's something no other guitar can pull off at that price.With all three guitar-playing Beatles using Casinos at the band’s dazzling creative peak, the model’s hall-of-fame status has long been assured. Generally it has a good value for money and it's a guitar that i'll always suggest for the people who likes The Beatles sound. The full-empty-body particularity gives you the possibility of play it acusticly with a pretty good sound, unfortunately this particularity doesn't allow you to use any distortion effect because of the feedback, but you can tinker a little bit with the amp settings for the sound that you prefer.

The legendary P-90 pickups are perfect for a smooth clean jazz (with the neck pickup), for a dirty blues/rock 'n' roll (with the bridge pickup) and for many other sounds (if you like to play with the beautiful ore volume and the tone control of the singular pickups). It has a beautiful sound in every style of music you wanna play: It's an Epiphone Casino for those who already know the past of this guitar there's nothing else to say.

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