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The Epiphone Casino is an absolutely iconic model, perhaps the best-known Epiphone model ever shipped. It was first produced in 1961, at the Gibson Kalamazoo plant; it was based on the Gibson ES-330TD, which was also built there. The vast majority were dual-pickup instruments, however some early examples were fitted with just one P90 pickup. It's legendary status was cemented in the mid-1960s by the patronage of members of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and many more. John Lennon, in particular was often pictured with his Casino, most notably in his Apple rooftop performance of 1969.

Original Kalamazoo-built Casinos are highly collectable, and much-loved as professional-grade instruments. Beyond 1969, Casino manufacture was moved to Japan, and later Korea and China. These guitars, although still adequate instruments, are not to the same standard as the real Casinos produced in the 1960s. The current Casinos are good entry-level and intermediate instruments and are still one of Epiphones best-selling guitar models.

Vintage Epiphone Casino Specs Prices

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Epiphone 1962 full line catalog. Details of the Epiphone Sorrento (E452T) and Epiphone Casino (E230T); Epiphone equivalents of the Gibson ES-125TC and ES-330TD thinlines. The guitars shown represent these models far better than the previous catalog in terms of hardware and appointments.

The Casino pictured is quite different from the example shown in the 1961 Epiphone catalog - this example has the parallelogram block inlays replacing the simpler dots, nickel-plated metal pickup covers (instead of black plastic) and a trapeze-style tailpiece instead of the Tremotone vibrato unit. Several variants are offered, each with different suffixes, describing them. T = Thinline, V = Vibrato, D = Dual pickup.

Likewise, the Sorrento had had some upgrades since it's appearance in the 1961 catalog. It is shown here with inlaid Epiphone headstock logo (instead of the metal V-shaped logo), oval pearl neck position markers, and the white (rather than black) scratchplate; three features that would continue throughout the decade.

Epiphone Casino Electric Guitar

1962 US prices for these guitars were as follows:
Casino: ES230T $230, ES230TV $269.50, E230TD $275, E230TDV $314.50
Sorrento: E452T (and E452T 3/4) $215, E452TN $230, E452TD $280, E352TDN $295