If there’s one thing we can be sure of it’s that your first guitar has a monumental impact on you as a player. Put the right guitar into the hands of a child and their playing career will be accelerated, sending them speeding down the road to rock stardom, whereas an ill-fitting axe will put the brakes on their progress entirely. Clearly, Epiphone agrees, as they’ve created an entire collection of guitars specially designed as a gateway for budding guitarists – the Epiphone Power Players. Like something out of a Rick Moranis-led 80s flick, Epiphone has pointed their shrink-ray at their most famous instruments, turning them into short-scale shred machines that are sure to fit even the smallest of hands.
This isn’t Epiphone’s first venture into the world of miniature guitars – far from it. Some of you may remember the admittedly slightly unloved Les Paul Express, which sat in the