Ibanez Guitars
The roots of Ibanez guitars go all the way back to Nagoya, Japan, to a company named Hoshino, which was founded in 1908 as a sheet-music store and later broadened its line to include other music products. A few decades after it began, Hoshino started selling a Spanish guitar model called the Ibanez, which, in 1957, became the namesake for the company.
The 1960s and 1970s are known today as Ibanez’s lawsuit period—the company produced a...Continue Reading