![]() The modern era of Ibanez guitars began in 1957 and the late 1950s and 1960s Ibanez catalogues show guitars with some wild looking designs. The Ibanez name dates back to 1929 when Hoshino Gakki started importing Salvador Ibanez acoustic guitars into Japan from the famous Spanish luthier Salvador Ibáñez (1854 - 1920), but when the Spanish workshop was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) and the original guitars became unavailable (and very much sought after because of their excellent quality), Hoshino Gakki bought the Ibanez brand name rights and started making Spanish and acoustic guitars on their own, first as "Ibanez Salvador", and later as "Ibanez". The company had little presence in the Western world until the mid-1960s. In 1935 they began manufacturing their own stringed instruments. The Hoshino Gakki company began in 1908 as a musical instrument sales division of the Hoshino Shoten bookstore company. 2.1.1 Production Signature Models (Past & Present). ![]()
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