was purchased by Gibson, its main rival in the archtop guitar market at the time.

From the 1930s through to the early 1950s, Epiphone produced a range of both acoustic and (later) electrified archtop guitars that rivalled those produced by Gibson and were the instruments of choice of many professionals a smaller range of flat-top guitars were also produced, some designations of which were later continued during the Gibson-owned era for the company. After taking over his father's business, Epaminondas Stathopoulos named the company 'Epiphone' as a combination of his own nickname 'Epi' and the suffix ' -phone' (from Greek phon-, 'voice') in 1928, the same year it began making guitars. I mean, it's really a good guitar.Electric, acoustic, archtop & resonator guitarsĮpiphone is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908. I do have a couple of MIC built guitars, such as my Gretsch Pro Jet, and they're generally decent to pretty darn good too. I've yet to play a Chinese made Casino, so I don't have a frame of reference concerning their relative quality levels. I have no idea if that translates into 'worth more' or not. I think it's an exceptionally good guitar, and pretty much everyone else who has played it - from seriously heavy jazz cats to hard core rockers - has commented favorably about it. Peerless built guitars have a reputation for being well made / good sounding, and mine certainly lives up to that IMO.

It should be able to tell you quite a bit about your guitar - including what factory it was made in, and the month and year of manufacture.Īccording to that site, mine was made in March of 2001 at the Peerless factory.

Yeah I hear the Peerless factory mentioned alot with other Epiphones, mine is only 4 years old though which is around the time they stopped production in Korea I think

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