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1966 Epiphone Granada E444T

Sugested retail price, October 1966: $195. This is one of 422 non-cutaway Granada (E444T) guitars shipped in 1966 (see Epiphone Granada production figures.

The Epiphone Granada E444T changed very little over the seven years of it's production. This 1966 instrument has typical hardware: a trapeze (bail-type) tailpiece (part TP-1020N), Kluson 3 on a plate enclosed tuning keys (part MH-301V), and rosewood floating bridge (part BR-35). The pickup is a pickguard-mounted Melody Maker single-coil (part PU-380), as used on thousands of Gibson solid bodies.

This guitar was manufactured in the main (Parsons Street) Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, (as were most 1960s Epiphone and Gibson guitars - though some were made in other Kalamazoo plants). Production costs were kept low by using the least expensive pickups, and mounting all controls onto the scratchplate; thus allowing assembling independent of the guitar itself. This cost-cutting method was used extensively in the 1970s, but is only seen on a few models prior to that. The body and neck are of typical 1960s Gibson/Epiphone build quality.

As with all 1960s Epiphones, the serial number is on the reverse of the headstock. The logo was silk-screened, and not inlaid, as is the case in some higher end Epiphone guitars of the period.

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