![]() McCartney put his on record almost immediately, playing the guitar fills on the group's 1965 hit "Ticket to Ride" on his Casino. All three Casinos were Sunburst, and George's had a Bigsby vibrola tailpiece. ![]() Near the end of 1964, Epiphone scored an unexpected coup when the Beatles bought three Casinos - one each for George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. King, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Hendrix (while playing with the Isley Brothers) were all playing Epiphone Casinos. Introduced in 1961, this was Epiphone's $335.00 version of the highly popular Gibson ES-330. Housed in its original gray hardshell with royal blue plush lining (9.25). (can you believe it!), in totally original and as near mint condition as you can get, earning a conservative 9.50 condition rating. This is a featherweight guitar, weighing only 5.40 lbs. Epiphone Frequensator tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge with retainer. Gold plastic bell-shape knobs with metal tops. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch. Four-layer (white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard with bevelled edge and silver and black Epiphone "E" logo. This guitar has a nut width of 1 9/16 inches, a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Two chrome-covered P-90 pickups with thumping great 7.96k and 8.08k outputs. A 16-inch single-bound laminated maple top, back, and sides, mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with inlaid pearl single-parallelogram markers and 22 wide jumbo frets.
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