George Harrison Epiphone Casino. George harrison can be seen using a hofner president archtop guitar in this photo. The epiphone casino was a very important guitar to the beatles.
The most obvious difference between these two virtually identical guitars was harrison s had a bigsby vibrato while lennon s had the standard epiphone trapeze tail. And in 1968 lennon had his casino s original sunburst finished stripped down to bare wood after the psychedelic folk pop star donovan told him it would improve the instrument s sound. Lennon and harrison had both purchased epiphone casinos in 1966 partly to keep pace with paul mccartney who d bought his own back in 64.
The most obvious difference between these two virtually identical guitars was harrison s had a bigsby vibrato while lennon s had the standard epiphone trapeze tail.
Of all the guitars the beatles made famous the only one that john paul and george had in common was the epiphone casino. Lennon and harrison had both purchased epiphone casinos in 1966 partly to keep pace with paul mccartney who d bought his own back in 64. Each owned one and used it for countless recordings and performances. And in 1968 lennon had his casino s original sunburst finished stripped down to bare wood after the psychedelic folk pop star donovan told him it would improve the instrument s sound.
