The current Casino made with a select maple body and top with F-holes, trapeze bridge, mahogany neck (24.75' scale), neck and body binding, two volume and two tone controls, and parallelogram inlays. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. Since then it's made its voice heard on numerous landmark recordings, not least of which include The Beatles’ Sgt. At a distance it looked like a 335, but it was a true hollow-body and had a clear and sonorous tone that responded perfectly when pushed a little. With the Casino Epiphone managed to create this modern instrument. There was a lot of new music on the scent and Epiphone needed a modern guitar to suit it.

Epiphone merged with Gibson in '57 and shortly after moved away from building larger archtops.

When it was originally introduced in '61 the Casino was an Epiphone breakthrough. Equipped with two vintage-styled P-90 single-coil pickups, the Casino still delivers those amazing tones at a price every player can afford. The Epiphone Elitist Casino is not your standard Epiphone guitar. Since then this fully hollow guitar has taken on a life of its own. Epiphone Casino Elitist Hollow Body Guitar Review. The Epiphone Casino has been world famous ever since the Beatles purchased three of them back in '64.