The Epiphone Les Paul Standard Guitar - The work of a genius?

The Epiphone Guitar Les Paul Standard has its roots in Turkey, in which a man known Greek Anastasios Stathopoulos made lutes and violins again in the years 1870s. Stathopoulos moved to the United States in 1903, where he runs his business until his death in 1915.

His son - Epaminondas (as "epi") are known, then the company took over and after the First World War the company began to popularize time banjos. The first guitar that the company happened in 1928, the year before the fall of Wall Street.

Epi died in 1943, towards the end of World War II, when his two brothers in control of the company. This, even though it was not as good as Epi with the economy and society of Gibson, acquired his main rival in 1957.

In the 1970s the Epiphone Guitar Les Paul Standard has begun to be manufactured in Japan, is then in the 1980s, the most important work in Korea, where the emphasis is on producing a cheaper version of the classic model of Gibson. But now is the Epiphone Guitar exclusively on China.

Although it seems that the original model by Gibson Epiphone Guitar - both visual and ergonomic - some guitarists think it is a slightly different tone. There is no evidence for this theory, however.

In those days, Epiphone Guitar is a subsidiary of Gibson, in general, the Epiphone is a bit like the Epiphone guitar, even if the space is much cheaper than the Epiphone, but still her own line in the range of archtop.

Incidentally, the name "Epiphone is really is to be taken from" epi "(Epaminondas), and" Phone ", the Greek for sound.

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