In 1951, a four-month-long strike forced a relocation of Epiphone from New York City to Philadelphia. After Epi died in 1943, control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo. The company produced its recording line of banjos in 1924 and, four years later, took on the name of the Epiphone Banjo Company. Just after the end of World War I, the company started to make banjos. After two years, the company became known as The House of Stathopoulo. Anastasios died in 1915, and his son, Epaminondas ('Epi'), took over. Stathopoulo moved to the United States in 1903 and continued to make his original instruments, as well as mandolins, from Long Island City in Queens, New York. Įpiphone began in 1873, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey), where Greek founder Anastasios Stathopoulos made his own fiddles and lutes (oud, laouto). The name 'Epiphone' is a combination of proprietor Epaminondas Stathopoulos' (Επαμεινώνδας Σταθόπουλος) nickname 'Epi' and 'phone' (from Greek phon- (φωνή), 'voice'). Epiphone also manufactures resonator guitars under the Dobro brand. However, the company's weakness in the aftermath of World War II and death of Epaminondas Stathopoulos in 1943 allowed Gibson to purchase it. Aside from guitars, Epiphone also made double basses, banjos, and other string instruments. Epiphone was Gibson's main rival in the archtop market prior to 1957. was purchased by Gibson and relocated from New York to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Electric, acoustic, archtop & resonator guitarsĮpiphone is an American musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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