Win an Epiphone Guitar
To celebrate the launch of their album, Division, 10 Years have teamed up with Indiependent Music to give away the Epiphone guitar played by guitarist, Tater on the album. And it’s signed, too! Click the link to find out more. [...]
Epiphone Prophecy Collection Review
Guitar Players Center has reviewed the new Epiphone Prophecy Collection. The verdict? “If your vibe is for this line of guitar, I assure you, you will see immediately why I say for the price it outperforms most other guitars for [...]
Epiphone Les Paul vs Gibson Les Paul
Every once in a while, I thought it would be fun to post videos of pretty much anything related to Epiphone guitars or amps. First up is a guy from The Next Level Guitars demonstrating the differences between an Epiphone Les Paul and a Gibson Les Paul. Click Continue, below, to see it.
Epiphone Amplifiers
Epiphone made valve amps way back in the Sixties, mostly copies of Gibson and Fender tube amps. It quit the market and only re-entered in 2006. Now it has a bunch of valve amps aimed at serious guitar players searching for that tonal warmth that you only get from a great tube amp
Epiphone Sheraton
The Epiphone Sheraton was one of the first Epiphone electric guitars to be made following the purchase of the company by Gibson, appearing a year after the Casino in 1959. The Epiphone Sheraton is a double-cut thinline, semi-hollow-bodied guitar with twin humbuckers.
Les Paul and Epiphone
The names Gibson and Les Paul go together like salt and pepper or Lennon and McCartney, yet Paul used a Epiphone guitar both before and after Gibson produced the guitars bearing his name. He used customised Epiphones, including The Log [...]
The Epiphone Casino
The Epiphone Casino is a wonderful hollow-bodied electric guitar first made in 1958 and based on the Gibson ES-330. It’s probably most famous for being played by three Beatles between 1965 and 1967. (You can probably guess that Ringo Starr was the odd Beatle out.) In fact, John Lennon loved his so much, he used it for the rest of his time with the band, favouring it over the Rickenbacker 325 he’d been using up to that point.
Welcome to Fretboard
Fretboard is an online magazine aimed at you if you own, play, or are interested in Epiphone guitars. Stick around, read the content we have available at the moment and come back for more. We update regularly.
The Epiphone Story
The Epiphone name first appeared in 1928 as The Epiphone Banjo Company and is derived from the nickname of its founder, Epaminondas Stathopoulo, ‘Epi’, and ‘phone’, the Greek for ‘sound.’