Now available in Worn Blue Denim, these Casinos still feature the classic design elements that make the model a legend, including a thin 5-ply maple hollow body, two Dogear P-90 pickups and a mahogany neck with a '60s C profile. The John Lennon Casino is a hollowbody electric archtop guitar. Over the years it has been the choice of players including blues legend Howlin' Wolf, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, and John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison of The Beatles. Since 1961, the Casino has been Epiphone's best-selling archtop and a rock 'n' roll standard.

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If you have any real information about this bass - no conspiracy-theories! - please write to more on this topic, head to Google and search for “Hofner #tracethebass. Since he bought it in 1966, the Epiphone Casino became, without a doubt, an essential part of Lennon’s signature sound during the second half of the fabulous four’s career, and the singer-songwriter legend kept this guitar as his main instrument until the end of his life.

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So we offer the following to anyone who can positively give information about the bass: 'It is such an important instrument, we all deserve to see it again.

We strongly believe it is time for this bass to return to its owner, Paul McCartney, if it still exists. “This information is out there if only someone would provide it. The price may still seem steep for some, but consider this: the upgrades alone would set you back the 400 difference between this and the standard Casino, it includes an Epiphone Limited Lifetime warranty and a quality hard case, plus a portion of the proceeds from each sale gets donated to the John Lennon Scholarship Fund for music education. “Someone, somewhere, knows what happened to this bass and someone knows if it still exists and where it is now,” reads the Hofner website. Speaking of Beatles gear, the gang at Hofner recently launched their #tracethebass campaign, which aims at tracking down McCartney’s stolen Hofner 1961 500/1.

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