https://www.preservationsound.com/ibanez-guitars-of-the-early-1980s-part-1/ information and ideas about audio history Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.preservationsound.com/ibanez-guitars-of-the-early-1980s-part-1/#comment-19525 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:43 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4645#comment-19525 […] number of new visitors to the site courtesy of Ibanez USA, who found us and spread the word.  See here for that post.  Hope y’all enjoyed yr visit; here’s some more for […]

]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/ibanez-guitars-of-the-early-1980s-part-1/#comment-19060 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:39:49 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4645#comment-19060 Ibanez and the other Japanese brands took advantage of the terrible quality and stuck up dealer policies of Fender and Gibson in the late 70s and early 80s. They had better fit and finish and needed less dealer set up to be playable, but also the dealers made more money. The real markups were higher, at least at first. The Japanese wanted market share and, as with consumer electronics, were willing to take low profits or even losses to build it.

]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/ibanez-guitars-of-the-early-1980s-part-1/#comment-18892 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:41:50 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4645#comment-18892 Ibanez, enough said . Only Guitar I play..

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