Area served Worldwide Products,, & guitars & basses Website Ibanez ( アイバニーズ, Aibanīzu) is a Japanese brand owned. Based in,, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the and. Ibanez manufactures effects, accessories, amps, and instruments in Japan, China, Indonesia and in the United States (at a Los Angeles-based custom shop). Currently, there are nearly 165 models of bass guitar, 130 acoustic guitars, and more than 300 electric guitars. In the 1960s, Japanese guitar makers started to mainly copy American guitar designs, and Ibanez-branded copies of, and models started to appear. This resulted in the so-called period.

During this period, Ibanez produced guitars under the Mann name to avoid authorities in the United States and Canada. [ ] Hoshino Gakki introduced Ibanez models that were definitely not copies of the Gibson or Fender designs, such as the and the Roadstar series. The company has produced its own guitar designs ever since. The late 1980s and early 1990s were an important period for the Ibanez brand. Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc Pc Italian on this page. Hoshino Gakki's relationship with guitarist resulted in the introduction of the and the models; after the earlier successes of the Roadstar and Iceman models in the late 1970s/early 1980s, Hoshino Gakki entered the market with the, a lower-priced version of their JEM series. Hoshino Gakki also had semi-acoustic, nylon- and steel-stringed acoustic guitars manufactured under the Ibanez name. Most Ibanez guitars were made by the FujiGen guitar factory in Japan up until the mid- to late 1980s, and from then on Ibanez guitars have also been made in other Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Indonesia.

During the early 1980s, the FujiGen guitar factory also produced most of the, including the -style Roland G-505, the twin-humbucker Roland G-202 (endorsed by,,,, Yannis Spathas, Christoforos Krokidis,,,, and ) and the Ibanez X-ING IMG-2010. And Starfield were guitar and bass brands owned by Hoshino Gakki.

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In the 1970s, Hoshino Gakki and Kanda Shokai shared some guitar designs, and so some Ibanez and have the same features. The Greco versions were sold in Japan and the Ibanez versions were sold outside Japan. From 1982, Ibanez guitars have also been sold in Japan as well.

Guitar brands such as and Mann shared some Ibanez guitar designs. The Antoria guitar brand was managed by JT Coppock Leeds Ltd England. CSL was a brand name managed by Charles Summerfield Ltd England. Maurice Summerfield of the Charles Summerfield Ltd company contributed some design ideas to Hoshino Gakki and also imported Ibanez and CSL guitars into the from 1964 to 1987. The Maxxas brand name came about because Hoshino Gakki thought that the guitar did not fit in with the Ibanez model range and was therefore named Maxxas by Rich Lasner from Hoshino USA.

The 'lawsuit' guitars [ ]. Mid-1970's 'Lawsuit Era' solid body, Set neck, Mann/Ibanez electric guitar Harry Rosenbloom, founder of the (now-closed) Medley Music of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, was manufacturing handmade guitars under the name 'Elger.'

Mf Doom Unexpected Guests Rapidshare Premium. By 1965, Rosenbloom had decided to stop manufacturing guitars and chose to become the exclusive North American distributor for Ibanez guitars. In September 1972, Hoshino began a partnership with Elger Guitars to import guitars from.

In September 1981, Elger was renamed 'Hoshino U.S.A.' , retaining the company headquarters in as a distribution and quality-control center. On June 28, 1977, in the, a lawsuit was filed by the, the parent company of, against Elger/Hoshino U.S.A.'

S use of the Gibson design and logo. Hoshino settled out of court in early 1978 and the case was officially closed on February 2, 1978. After the lawsuit, Hoshino Gakki abandoned the strategy of copying 'classic' electric guitar designs, having already introduced a plethora of original designs. Hoshino was producing their original Artist models from 1974, introducing a set-neck model in 1975.

In 1977, they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top-quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands: the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul; through-neck Musicians; Studios in fixed- and through-neck construction; the radically shaped Iceman; and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular era in the mid-1980s. The newer Ibanez models began incorporating more modern elements into their design such as radical body shapes, slimmer necks, 2-octave fingerboards, slim pointed headstocks, higher-output electronics, humbucker/single-coil/humbucker (H/S/H) pickup configurations, locking tremolo bridges and different finishes. Guitars [ ] Sub-brands [ ] Ibanez J. Custom The J. Custom series are the most exclusive and high-end custom shop guitars Ibanez offers. They are 'Envisioned to be the finest Japanese-made guitar in history'. Built by some of the most skilled luthiers Ibanez has to offer, they 'represent every advance in design and technology Ibanez has developed over the last 20 years'.