Ibanez Acoustic Guitar Pack

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With A Long History If you wanted a total history of Ibanez youd have go back to 1908 when a company named Hoshino began as a sheet music store and later music products distributor in Nagoya Japan. If you wanted a little less completeness than that youd go back about forty five when Hoshino began distributing a Spanish guitar named Ibanez. Or perhaps youd simply go to the Mid 60s when Hoshino, who by that time had purchased the rights to the Ibanez name, began shipping incredibly funky looking guitars to the United States, many of which were actually sold in department stores. But for most of us, Ibanez pretty much begins almost 30 years ago, when Hoshino opened an office near Philadelphia, PA for more efficiently distributing Ibanez guitars to the United States. Most of those guitars were Ibanez famous high quality but very inexpensive copies of just about everythingyou name it, we probably made a version of it. At that time many American instruments were going through an unfortunate period of increasing prices with decreasing quality, and these copies hit a ready market. But the people with Ibanez werent content with just copying and Ibanez began making their own designs the solid body Artists played by Bob Weir of the Dead the Iceman first made famous by Paul Stanley of KISS and the George Benson guitars, the first jazz boxes designed for higher volume stage playing. Many of these first Ibanez guitars continue to increase in value and a good number are now highly prized collectors items. By 1976, the Ibanez copy era officially came to an end when one of the major American guitar manufacturers no longer amused by the copierssuccessfully sued the highest profile copier, Ibanez. But by that time it didnt matterIbanez had already left the copies behind and was fast becoming an innovative guitar company in its own right. By the mid 80s with the interest in instrumental rock guitar on the rise, Ibanez collaborated with players such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert and brought out the JEM, JS, RG and S models. Today, present day versions such as these models still considered the standard in hard rock and instrumental rock guitars. As well known for its jazz guitars as it is for rock, Ibanez has an impressive line of jazz boxes including the aforementioned George Benson models, two Pat Methen
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