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Whether to buy the Epiphone Les Paul guitar or not is a favourite topic to be discussed by people who like to play a guitar as well as other music lovers. Guitars such as the Epiphone Les Paul are affordable but not cheap; you get an inexpensively priced quality guitar.

During the 19th century, Anastasios Stahopulous, a Turkish instrument maker went to live with his family in the US bringing with him his expertise in making musical instruments with strings. It was the year 1903 when they moved in the US and started a company. The company he set up was quite successful in the United States.

Anastasios Stathopoulos, a Turkish instrument maker in the 19th century, mastered the art of making string instruments. When he migrated to the United States in 1903 along with his family, he started a company which became successful because it was at this time that Americans developed a fascination for the banjo.

The first Les Paul guitar model came into being in the 1950′s when Gibson, the new owner, created and produced them based on the designs made by Les Paul himself, a famous guitarist and a guitar inventor too. At first, Les Paul’s initial plans and sketches on how a solid body guitar should look was ignored by Gibson.

In the early 1950s, Gibson introduced the Les Paul electric guitar, named after the popular guitarist Les Paul who also invented his own solid body for the guitar. Gibson designed a different version of the guitar while still incorporating suggestions from Les Paul and using him as the endorser for the new product.

In order to make the guitars more affordable, the materials needed to be economical, including the labour costs which is why they are manufactured in Korea. The resulting guitar became what is now called as the Epiphone Les Paul guitar. The Epiphone Les Paul guitar is a modified version of Gibson’s original creation.

Fond guitar users would usually heat up the Yes and No sides as to the argument of how good the Epiphone model is compared to the original Gibson creation. The critics would say that the tone emanating from the Epiphone models will not level up to the quality produced by the original.

In truth, the quality of the Epiphone Les Paul guitar is not much different from the original Gibson design. It has been modelled from the original Gibson guitars with almost the same inlays. It may be a bit lighter compared to the original but according to guitar users, they find it to be more responsive and the sound to be almost identical to the original Les Paul.

The truth of the matter is that the Epiphone is very much the same as the standard Les Paul guitar, built with more mahogany pieces, yet the sound is the same.

Aside from these similarities, the Gibson and the Epiphone models are physically created to look similar, almost like twins.

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