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Epiphone Al Caiola
Thinline semi acoustic
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 1964 full line catalog
The 1964 catalogue was the first to show the Epiphone Caiola. This model was renamed the Caiola Custom in 1966. |
 1966 full line catalog
 Today the electric Spanish guitar is found everywhere... orchestras, combos, jazz bands and as a featured solo instrument. Epiphone electric Spanish guitars suit the need of every player, from the top professional, to the semi-pro, to the amateur |
Epiphone Caiola - Tasty Guitar
Mid-sixties Epiphone advert for the Caiola; a guitar named after, and produced for, Artist Al Caiola.
The sound of Al Caiola and his Epiphone guitar is that: tasty. Music played with taste — sensitive, exciting music that challenges the skills of the artist. Yet taste is more than knowing what to play, it is also knowing what not to play. It is that skill, among many others, that makes Al Caiola outstanding — a skill born of years of dedication to music. Years of dedication to being the best. On network staff, as a sideman for the stars, or on his own United Artist recording sessions, Al Caiola plays with taste, and with a skillfully controlled inventiveness that has won him the title of "guitar genius." And the demands that this man Al Caiola makes on his guitar make Epiphone a necessity. |
 | | Epiphone Al Caiola Custom
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 | | Epiphone Al Caiola Standard
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| Model | Caiola Standard | Caiola Custom |
| Available | 1966-69 | 1963-69 |
| Pickups | Two single coil dog-ear P90s | Two mini humbuckers |
| Scale | 25 1/2" |
| Body | Maple top sides, bound. 16" wide (lower bout), 19" long, 1 15/16" thick |
| Neck | One-piece set mahogany with binding, rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlays. 20 frets, body meeting the neck at the 18th fret. | One-piece set mahogany with binding, rosewood fingerboard with pearl block inlays. 20 frets, body meeting the neck at the 18th fret. |
| Hardware | Tune-o-matic bridge with Caiola tailpiece. 1 volume and tone control, with tonexpressor switches. | Ebony floating bridge with Caiola tailpiece. 1 volume and tone control, with tonexpressor switches. |
| Finishes | Shaded (Sunburst), Cherry
| Shaded (Sunburst) 1963-66, Walnut 66-69
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This was the signature model of Jazz guitarist Al Caiola. The Al Caiola was renamed the Al Caiola Custom, when the Al Caiola Standard was launched in 1966
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