In the sixty's, an era of folk music started which brought in demand for exclusively good acoustics on a large scale. That was the time when first Epiphone dove acoustic guitar in maple was introduced as an answer to its own mahogany model known as Hummingbird. For the one's searching for a low-cost acoustic guitar Epiphone acoustic guitar is the best choice. Although being a low-cost guitar, it provides excellent performance along with the lovely look contrary to other guitars in which money is spent only on the appearance and not excellence. Among all the inexpensive guitars versions, this Epiphone dove model is the best offer and the price of the model is really surprising, but the tones coming out of the guitar does it all. However, if one changes the strings it will be much better.

The Epiphone Dove acoustic guitar consists of a maple neck along with the back and sides laminated with maple sides with a solid spruced top. It can also find it in black, cherry and natural colours. It has a longer scale length compared to hummingbird giving it more volume, bright treble and bass effects. The guitar consists of a large pick guard and a bridge. It also includes Grover tuners and the fingerboards inlays that are spitted parallelogram along with the strap buttons. Because of the low price one can't expect a lot form this guitar. The corners of the guitar have been cut because of which the neck feel is not that good. However it has a decent action and is playable. Having a great sound adds to the most important feature of the guitar, in a good way, which can be easily recognized by hearing it. Ones who play the guitars below fourth fret must give a try to it. As expected from this long-scaled guitar, high strings are very quiet as one goes up the fingerboard. Although with a full bass, it sounds like a dreadnaught. And coming on to looks, it looks clean and well bonded with a good finishing.

If one is ready to spend a large amount of money and a hard core musician or if the guitar with a long scale is a problem or may be one likes a darker tone then you can find a guitar much better than Epiphone dove acoustic guitar. However, for beginners and for using in a small run, it is the best option one can avail.