Martin Guitars has been creating the finest guitars and strings in the world for over years. The orange labels inside hollow bodied instruments was discontinued in and were replaced by white and orange rectangle labels on the acoustics, and small black, purple and white rectangle labels were placed on electric models.Ī few bolt on neck instruments had a date ink stamped on the heel area. The Greco versions were sold in Japan and the Ibanez versions were sold outside Japan.Īll numbers were impressed into the wood and a six digit number assigned, though no particular order was given and some instruments had a letter prefix. In the s, Hoshino Gakki and Kanda Shokai shared some guitar designs, and so some Ibanez and Greco guitars have the same features. Cimar and Starfield were guitar and bass brands owned by Hoshino Gakki. Most Ibanez guitars were made by the FujiGen guitar factory in Japan up until the mid- to late s, and from then on Ibanez guitars have also been made in other Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Indonesia. The late s and early s were an important period for the Ibanez brand. The company has produced its own guitar designs ever since. During this period, Ibanez produced guitars under the Mann name to avoid authorities in the United States and Canada. This resulted in the so-called lawsuit period. Hoshino Gakki decided in to make Spanish-style acoustic guitars, at first using the “Ibanez Salvador” brand name, and later simply “Ibanez.
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