IbanezGBI

Ibanez has a long and varied history dating back over 100 years. The company began life in Japan in 1908 originally as the Hoshino Gakki manufacturing and selling stringed instruments. By the 1960's these were distributed in the US through the guitar maker Harry Rosenbloom and his Elger Guitars company. They choose the Ibanez name to avoid the "made in Japan" connotations which at the time were related to low quality goods.