Ibanez is a japaneses guitar company that started long ago, they first started making copys of other companys guitars and basses , but now create there own good stuff.Many famous musicians use ibanez's, such as steve vai,joe satriani,and the guitarists of korn, the bassist of korn also uses a ibanez,etc etc.Ibanez gives the best bang for the buck overall.So go out and buy a ibanez guitar, or bass!

The Hoshino Gakki company begun in 1908 as a musical instrument sales division of the Hoshino Shoten bookstore company. In 1935 they began manufacturing their own stringed instruments. The company had little presence in the Western world until the mid-1960s.

In 1954, Harry Rosenbloom opened a music store in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. Due to the post-World War II music boom, his sales soon outstripped his inventory, and he began a company called Elger Guitars in an attempt to manufacture enough guitars to fill his needs. The Elger Guitar company made a relatively small number of hand-built, high quality guitars through the early 1960s.

By 1965 Rosenbloom had decided to stop manufacturing guitars and chose to become the exclusive North American distributor for Hoshino Gakki instruments. At the time, the phrase "made in Japan" was considered to have negative connotations of low quality, so Hoshino Gakki and Rosenbloom wanted to distribute the instruments under a "non-Japanese" name. Hoshino had recently acquired a small Spanish guitar company named Ibanez, and it was decided to market the instruments under this brand name. In 1971 Hoshino purchased Elger Guitars, renaming the company "Ibanez U.S.A." and retaining the company headquarters in Bensalem, Pennsylvania as a distribution and quality-control center.

In the early 1970s Ibanez began making guitars that were almost exact copies of popular models by Gibson, Fender and Rickenbacker. Using...

Awesome guitar company, used by hard rock bands. Many models produce various sounds.

Awesome guitar Company get an RG series

the coolest guitars in the WORLD!!!!!!!!

a guitar company that makes good guitars.. soo good that steve vai has his own series, the jem series

Sweet as fuck, THE best guitar company around, no one competes. used by Joe Satriani, Steve vai and many others