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    Epiphone USA Casino

    Jan 10, 2022 4 minutes

    Like most of us, my first impulse when picking up the handsome new USA-built Epiphone Casino was to play some Beatles, Oasis and Kinks riffs, and man, does it ever deliver that classic British rock sound: spanky, resonant and woody, with that touch of chambery depth that only a proper hollow-body guitar can really capture. Even unamplified, it’s unmistakable and iconic, and this new USA Casino – the first to be built in the U.S. since 1971 – absolutely nails what makes the Casino great. From McCartney to Weller to Gallagher, we know what a Casino can do, right?

    Well, it would be a mistake to continue to pigeonhole the Casino as strictly a guitar for British-inspired power pop, no matter

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