Epiphone Casino Red Bigsby
Jul 20, 2014 - Epiphone casino and cherry red finish with a Bigsby vibrado. The classic Casino attributes include the fully-hollow, laminated Maple body with glued-in Mahogany neck. Fingerboard radius: 12 inch, fingerboard inlays- parallelogram pearloid inlays This monster of a guitar is equipped with Epiphone P90R and P90T dog-ear pickups that give you. The control layout is the same - two volume and tone controls, plus a three-way pickup selector switch. A Bigsby vibrato is an option on both guitars. While the Casino uses the same Tune-o-matic style bridge as the ES-335 and several other Gibson models, the Casino uses a trapeze tailpiece instead of the 335's 'stopbar' tailpiece.
One of Epiphone's original thin line arch tops. Now featuring three P-90 Pickups and Bigsby® B700 tailpiece.
The Epiphone Riviera Custom P93 is modeled after one of Epiphone’s most enduring classics, the Riviera and features three P-90 pickups, gold hardware, and a Bigsby® B700.Finish
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First introduced in the early 1950s, Gibson's legendary P90 single coil pickup produced a raw powerful tone that helped define the blues and rock and roll in their formative years. Today, the P90's traditional combination of high output and brilliant tone is still considered a favorite among many top musicians. Known by such familiar nicknames as the 'Soapbar' and the 'Cobalt,' the P90 still cuts through any type of music, all while displaying amazing tonal sensitivity for everything from blues and rock to mellow jazz riffs. It's perfect as a vintage replacement, and features vintage, braided two-conductor wiring. It's also fully wax potted to eliminate any chance of unwanted microphonic feedback.
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The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece is a type of vibrato device for electric guitar designed by Paul A. Bigsby. The device allows musicians to bend the pitch of notes or entire chords with their pick hand for various effects.
The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
The Bigsby vibrato unit is installed on the top of the guitar and works in conjunction with a rocker bridge. The arm of the Bigsby is spring loaded and attached to a pivoting metal bar, around which the strings of the guitar are installed. In the neutral or unused position, the pressure of the spring counterbalances the pull of the strings, resulting in constant pitch when the strings are played. When the arm of the Bigsby is pushed down towards the top of the guitar, the bridge rocks forward causing the strings to loosen, lowering their pitch. When the arm is released, the strings return to normal pitch. The arm may also be lifted slightly to raise the pitch of the strings. The Bigsby is highly controllable within its range of motion and usually requires little force to operate. It is ideally suited to musicians who use slow, subtle, or extended bends. It has limited range compared to tremolo units using longer springs contained internally. Competing units, like the Floyd Rose and the Fender synchronized tremolo (or strat-style) are therefore preferred by some players.
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Bigsby vibratos are still factory installed on electric guitars, such as those manufactured by Epiphone, Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, Hamer as well as luthiers companies such as Motor Ave. Many electric guitars can also be retrofitted with a Bigsby (requires no routing of the body), and there are different varieties of the unit designed to fit different styles of guitar, such as a hollow body or solid body guitar. Bigsby units ship with their own rocker bridges, though adjustable alternatives such as the Tune-o-matic style bridge or Jazzmaster style bridge are also available.