The project's sole purpose is to learn more and share info about the great musical instruments of Epiphone's New York era.Changes in the gut microbiota may underpin many human diseases, but the mechanisms that are responsible for altering microbial communities remain poorly understood. NY Epi Reg is a private, non-commercial research project driven by my personal interest in vintage Epiphone instruments – as a player and collector of fine guitars and mandolins. Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson's 'Banner' Guitars of WWII. Les Paul Guitar Registry, and last but not least, Kalamazoo This research project was inspired by similar projects covering other brands and types of vintage musical instruments – such as the Mandolin Archive, Banner Gibsons Registry, Gibson We hope that this data collection will continue to grow as Epiphone instrument owners all over the world keep contributing Historic catalogs, price lists and adverts: PDFs of Epiphone sales literature from 1930–50s are available.Production estimates, using our own approximation (interpolation + extrapolation) algorithms.
PRE GIBSON TOBIAS SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER
PRE GIBSON TOBIAS SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS
See our revised charts for dating serial numbers of Epiphone acoustic + electric instruments, and amplifiers.
The only way to get more knowledge in this field is to gather and analyze information on as many surviving Epiphone instruments as possible. Epiphone's serial number systems and the rationale behind them still bear some mysteries and the production year of an Epiphone instrument can be only approximately derived from its serial number. Therefore no "official" production figures are available for any of the original Epiphone models. Why is that? Fact is: No Epiphone factory ledgers or other official production documents from the pre-1957 years are known to have survived. The new owners continued to produce Epiphone-branded instruments, first in Gibson's Kalamazoo MI factory and later in East Asia – to this day (read more about EpiphoneĬompared with other leading manufacturers like Gibson or Martin, there seem to be more gaps and puzzles in the history of Epiphone instruments of the NY era – especially regarding production figures. The era of the original NY-based Epiphone company ended when, after a long decline, it was sold by the Stathopoulo family in 1957 to Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI) – the parent company of their main competitor Gibson. Many rate the quality of these instruments on a par with competitors of their time such as Gibson, D'Angelico, or Stromberg, to name just a few. Today these fine vintage Epiphone instruments continue to be of interest to musicians, collectors and historians. Over the following decades the quality of Epiphone's archtop guitars and other stringed instruments gained a high reputation, leading numerous top players to choose Epiphone instruments for performing and recording their music.
The name "Epiphone" has been part of American music history since the 1920s when Epaminondas "Epi" Stathopoulo (1893–1943), the young president of a family-owned instrument manufacturing company based in New York, introduced a successful line of banjos with this brand, soon followed by guitars. Oct 9: The lefty Electric Cutaway Tenor.