Tak Matsumoto and Chet Atkins Models Join Epi's Elitist Line
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Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul
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Elitist Chet Atkins Country Gentleman
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January 22, 2004
Epiphone, a division of Gibson Guitar, broadens the range of its Elitist Collection with a flashy new signature model from Japanese rock virtuoso Tak Matsumoto and one of the all-time classic models from "Mr. Guitar," Chet Atkins.
That Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul is based on a Gibson Les Paul played by Matsumoto in the Japanese supergroup B'z. The Elitist Chet Atkins Country Gentleman carries on the late guitarist's legacy of influential guitar design, dating back to the 1950s.
The Elitist Tak Matsumoto model is the ultimate Les Paul Standard, featuring a quilt-maple top and abalone fingerboard inlays. The top finish is Takburst, a unique faded cherry sunburst that is complemented by faded cherry back and sides. The Tak Les Paul is equipped with Gibson USA-made 'Burstbucker pickups, which are coverless humbuckers with "zebra" black and white coils, designed to replicate the pickups on the original sunburst Les Pauls of the 1958-60. MSRP with hard case: $1,999.
The Elitist Chet Atkins Country Gentleman is the latest in a series of guitar designs from the man who has been called the world's most influential guitarist. Named after Atkins' 1953 recording, "Country Gentleman," the model first appeared in the Gretsch line in 1957. The Elitist model is based on the thinline, semi-hollowbody Gibson that Atkins designed in 1986. It features such unique Atkins appointments as a banjo-style armrest, a wire tremolo handle and "thumbprint" fingerboard inlays. MSRP with hard case: $1,749,
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