On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:51 PM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Indeed it is a brand of Bass Guitars, Gibson's value brand in fact. >> Ironically the bass in question is something of a Fender clone. -Adam > >> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> Nice rendering. But that is "Epiphone"? Is that the name of the >>>> brand of bass? > > It was originally a brand in its own right, one of Gibson's competitors. > Evidently they couldn't quite make make it after WWII and Gibson bought > them out in the 50s. > > Lately, Epiphone is a cheap Gibson clone made under contract at whatever > far eastern factory will bid the lowest, although there are a few > Epiphone models with no Gibson counterpart. >
I wouldn't call Epiphone a 'cheap Gibson clone', their QC is generally better than Gibson's own, good mid-range guitars. I'd gladly buy an Epiphone off the shelf, but a Gibson I'd not touch unless I had tried out the guitar in question. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
