Sign in to see your user information My eBay Expand My eBay Summary Recently Viewed BidsOffers Watch List Purchase History Selling Saved Searches Saved Sellers Messages Notification Expand Cart Loading.

HSC C 4,297.05 C 183.17 shipping or Best Offer 11 watching Epiphone FT-79N TEXAN Made in 1965 C 4,921.04 C 275.92 shipping Used Epiphone Ft-45 Cortez Acoustic Guitar Acoustic Guitar Lim829 C 5,198.97 C 291.11 shipping Epiphone FT-350SCE Red Acoustic-Electric Guitar w Min-Etune Self Tuning w Case C 580.96 C 150.62 shipping Results Pagination - Page 1 1 2 3 4.

User Agreement, Privacy, Cookies, and AdChoice Norton Secured - powered by Verisign.

Solid body guitars with flat tops and backs were made at the Elenor Street plants (both Gibson and Epiphone) in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

It 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.

After taking over his fathers business, Epaminondas Stathopoulos named the company Epiphone as a combination of his own nickname Epi and the suffix -phone (from Greek phon-, voice) 2 in 1928, the same year it began making guitars.

Gibson relocated Epiphones manufacturing operation from its original Queens, New York factory to Gibsons Kalamazoo, Michigan factory.

Over time, as Gibson moved its own manufacturing operations to other facilities, Epiphone followed suit; Gibson has also subcontracted the construction of Epiphone products to various facilities in the US and internationally.

Aside from guitars, Epiphone has also made double basses, banjos, and other string instruments, as well as amplifiers.

Anastasios died in 1915, and his son, Epaminondas (Epi), took over.

After two years, the company became known as The House of Stathopoulo.

The company produced its recording line of banjos in 1924 and, four years later, took on the name of the Epiphone Banjo Company.

After Epi died in 1943, control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo.

In 1951, a four-month-long strike precipitated a relocation of Epiphone from New York City to Philadelphia.

In 1957 the company was acquired by Gibson.

Since then, the brand has been used for a number of different guitars, some manufactured by Gibson itself in its own factories, and some manufactured by other companies such as Matsumoku under contract to Gibson and marketed under the Epiphone brand.

Firstly, Epiphone is used as a budget brand for Gibson, producing identically-named but lower-priced versions of popular Gibson models, such as the Epiphone Les Paul, which serves as a budget model comparable to the Gibson Les Paul.

Secondly, Epiphone has also been used to brand models under alternate names, but are otherwise similar to more expensive Gibson-branded guitars, for example the Epiphone G-400 is functionally equivalent to the Gibson SG, and the Epiphone Dot is essentially a budget version of the Gibson ES-335.

Occasionally, the Epiphone version of the guitar is historically better known, for example the Epiphone Casino, functionally identical to the Gibson ES-330, is better known due to its close association with artists such as The Beatles.

Thirdly are models which are exclusive to the Epiphone brand without equivalent models produced under the Gibson brand, such as the Epiphone Coronet.

Historically, hundreds of different models have borne the Epiphone brand, and many are available in the used guitar market.

This outfit was an amplifier, case and lap steel guitar stand all rolled into one unit 4 and was supplied by a suitcase manufacturer of the time.

These were copies or variations of Gibson and Fender amplifiers citation needed.

Gibson decided to launch a new line of Epiphone tube amplifiers in 2005 with models including the So Cal, Blues Custom, Epiphone Valve Junior and the solid state Triggerman range.

The Valve Hot Rod is a 5 watt amp like the Valve Junior, but has a gain and reverb control.

The Valve Senior offers 20 watts of power, with a full equalizer, gain, volume, reverb, and presence control.

These Amplifiers were under the Epiphone Electar brand.

In 2014 the 1939 Electar Century 18-watt valve amplifier was reissued in an updated 75th anniversary Limited Edition.

Epiphone Cortez Ft 135