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In 1958 Gibson introduced the ES-335 and quietly changed the course of electric guitar design. The semi-hollow format — a fully hollow thinline body with a solid maple centerblock running through the middle — solved the feedback problem that plagued fully hollow guitars at stage volumes while preserving the warm, resonant, acoustically alive character that made hollow-body guitars so tonally compelling. The result was, as many players have argued ever since, the most versatile electric guitar ever designed: at home in jazz, blues, rock, country, and virtually any genre that requires an instrument that responds with nuance and sings with sustain. Cherry is the original ES-335 color — the one in the catalogs, the one on the stages, the one that has appeared in more concert photographs and album covers than any other — and on the Epiphone IGC ES-335 it looks exactly as it should. Dot inlays on a bound rosewood fingerboard, Kalamazoo-style headstock with Gibson crown and Epiphone logo b