Hoshino Gakki
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The Hoshino Gakki company was founded in 1908 by Matsujiro Hoshino as a musical instrument sales division of the Hoshino Shoten bookstore company. Matsujiro was succeeded by Yoshitaro Hoshino. In 1935, the company began manufacturing their own stringed instruments. The company had little presence in the Western world until the mid-1960s.
In 1962, Junpei Hoshino, Yoshitaro's son, opened the Tama Seisakusho factory to manufacture electric guitars and amplifiers. Tama produced a line of guitars that included clones of several popular guitars, including the Martin Dreadnought. At the time they were also manufacturing Star Drums, available in either the Imperial or Royal models.
The Hoshino Gakki Group acquired a small Spanish guitar company named Ibañez in 1965. At that point, they rebranded the guitars in the foreign market under the Ibanez name and continued to produce the Star Drums.
Ibanez guitars have been used by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Herman Li, Head (previous member of KoRn), Munky of KoRn.
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