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Epiphone

Epiphone company profile, products, leadership and news coverage from MMR, the music products industry publication founded in 1879.

ManufacturerNashville, TN, United StatesOfficial website

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108 published MMR stories reference this company or its work.

Gibson Gives Comes Together With John Lennon Songwriting Contest

In honor of John Lennon’s 80th birthday, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (JLSC) have announced a partnership with Gibson Gives to support musicianship, music education and songwriting for people of all ages.

Gibson Virtual Guitar Tech Service Launches Worldwide

Gibson has launched a free, virtual, and fully-interactive guitar tune-up service, the Gibson Virtual Guitar Tech Service. A global experience, the service matches players worldwide with Gibson’s team of professional techs in real-time to cover…

Gibson Launches 'HomeMadeMusic' Initiative

Gibson has launched a new initiative called “Gibson HomeMade” to support musicians who currently cannot work due to COVID-19-related gig cancellations and postponements.

2019 Holiday Buying Guide

Before the holiday madness hits this November and December (or sooner!), start planning out your inventory for the fall and winter with MMR’s annual Holiday Buying Guide. Sorted…

This New Era at Gibson

Full disclosure: I worked (for only) about three years at Gibson, in the 1990s, and left there (the first time) on good terms. I got to do cool…

Gibson Kicking Off New Era at NAMM

Gibson will showcase a new line-up and artist collaborations at NAMM and has promised its best-ever vintage re-issue plus a resurrection of the Epiphone brand.

Why Try to be Like Everybody Else?

In Victoria Wasylak’s excellent profile of Lexington, Massachusetts’ guitar dealer, The Music Emporium (page 64), co-owner Joe Caruso says of the Boston areas’ Guitar Center locations: “They didn’t…

Epiphone Giveaway Runs Through September

Musicians can enter to win a new Epiphone PRO-1 Ultra guitar with a hard case and a PRO-1 Accessory Kit on Epiphone.com through September 2017. 

New Gibson Bonamassa signature models

Blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa has joined forces with Gibson Brands once again to announce the limited release of the Epiphone Polymist Gold Firebird I and the Epiphone Tobacco…

Hal Leonard Launches backwing Project

Hal Leonard's Performing Arts division has launched a new digital community called Backwing, aimed at music and performing arts communities and including a direct sales site.

Q&A: Rob Turner talks 40 years of EMG

2016 marks four decades of EMG, Inc., innovative designers and producers of pickups, EQ accessories – and more! (read on) – that have been embraced by players across a…