Later on in the mid-1980's, Epiphone reverted to original specs for the Casino, Riviera and Emperor (like today's Broadway), and the Matsumoku versions of those guitars are superb - close to Elitist quality.Īnyone willing to spend over a thousand dollars on a used guitar can get many, many FAR superior instruments for the money. They typically go on eBay for a few hundred bucks tops. They have no collectible value whatsoever, and because the fretboards were made before computer controlled manufacturing, some are damn near unplayable. They are generic guitars that wore a variety of brand names with only minor cosmetic differences, and were not related to any original Epiphone designs. The EA-255 was sometimes also called a Riviera and sometimes a Casino, but bore absolutely no resemblance to the guitars we think of with those names other than being a double cutaway with two (sketchy) pickups. But when Epiphone outsourced their guitars to Matsumoku in the 1970's, they wanted cheap, and that's what they got. Some were wonderful - I have a Ventura branded Matsumoku-made Barney Kessel that rivals some Gibsons I've played. Matsumoku built guitars to spec for a variety of distributors.
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