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Yes Ma'am, this Epiphone Zephyr Emperor Regent is all this - Zephyr, Emperor and Regent, on top of being an Epiphone - I mean a 1953 Epiphone when the brand was Gibson's most serious concurrent, and actually leading the market of archtop hollow body electric guitars with this very model (at a time when there wasn't other kinds of electric guitars).
A few years later Epiphone started to wane - it had never really recovered from its founder's passing away in 1943 - and was sold to Gibson in 1957, and became what it is nowadays, this bizarre mix of budget and historical instruments maker...
Anyway, Zephyr stands for electric, Emperor for the characteristic big archtop hollow body that made Epiphone rule the market back in the day, and Regent for cutaway. This model shows also the first serious pickup selector in history, the six switches allowing to reach quickly several combinations of the three pickups, at the exception strangely of the three together...
A sexy grandma, isn't it?
Bertram
PS. You'll find a fine review here.
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
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1953 Epiphone Zephyr Emperor Regent, a sexy grandma
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A few years later Epiphone started to wane - it had never really recovered from its founder's passing away in 1943 - and was sold to Gibson in 1957, and became what it is nowadays, this bizarre mix of budget and historical instruments maker...
Anyway, Zephyr stands for electric, Emperor for the characteristic big archtop hollow body that made Epiphone rule the market back in the day, and Regent for cutaway. This model shows also the first serious pickup selector in history, the six switches allowing to reach quickly several combinations of the three pickups, at the exception strangely of the three together...
A sexy grandma, isn't it?
Bertram
PS. You'll find a fine review here.
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- 1966 Usa-made Epiphone Newport Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: Please forgive the brevity of today's blog post, but I am experiencing computer problems and have limited time on a borrowed PC. Here we see an Epiphone Newport bass from 1966 - that is, back in the days when the Epiphone name...
- Epiphone Frenzy
Yesterday was a special day, I received two new guitars the very same day, an Epiphone Dot Studio I bought six months ago in the US (thanks to the low dollar and the wrecked car I sold for hardly more than what I paid for the guitar) and that...
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Some readers may recognize this model as one of the guitars Kurt Cobain was known to play (along with his modified Mustangs and his Univox Hi-Flyer). It's a Japanese made Epiphone model ET-270. Neat guitar - uses a similar style neck as the Epiphone...
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Another slightly unusual post but I couldn't resist: I've always respected Django Reinhardt as an influential guitarist but mostly for the quaint "Gypsy Style" acoustic Jazz on his pre-war recordings with Stefan Grapelli and The Hot Club...
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Not the greatest deal but no bad if you like these. These are small bodied semi-hollow's - nothing like a 335 but they have their own charm. Teisco Regent Guitar Reply to: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Teisco%20Regent%20Guitar...