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7 unusual facts about Ibanez


Fletcher Dragge

Due to his large frame (6'8", and at least 350 lbs) Fletcher plays a 1 and 1/4 size RG420 guitar, custom built for him by Ibanez.

Ibanez

The Ibanez brand name dates back to 1929 when Hoshino Gakki began importing Salvador Ibáñez guitars from Spain.

Jani Liimatainen

He is endorsed by Ibanez, plays a Destroyer DT 200 Custom, the Ibanez JPM4 P4 (which is John Petrucci's signature model), and Ibanez "Streetwise" USA Custom guitars & Ibanez Rg 2020X.

Jeanne Sagan

She is a former Ibanez player, using both Soundgear 4-strings and an ARTB100 4-string, the latter of which can be seen in the music video for the song "Hold On" from the album For We Are Many. Jeanne currently uses Orange amplifiers and Omega speaker cabinets.

Khan Manuel

Ibanez guitars are the main guitars that Manuel uses with minimal foot pedals consisting only of a distortion pedal and Boss digital delay with a Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier.

At 16 Manuel won an open Joe Satriani guitar competition held by Ibanez Australia.

Nigel Gavin

His favourite electric guitars are a Fender Telecaster and an Ibanez 7-string, both of which he uses with a variety of effects.


Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Another significant achievement of Ibáñez's first administration was the signing of the 1929 Treaty of Lima, in which Chile agreed to return the Tacna Province to Peru, which had been seized during the War of the Pacific.

Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola

A new generation began at Casa del Lago when notorious figures such as José Luis Ibáñez, Leonora Carrington, Juan Soriano, Octavio Paz and even Juan José Arreola, who along with Miguel Gonzalez Avelar, to name a few, began to promote Poetry Out Loud, Chess Tournaments and the Philatelic Club.

Here Comes the Indian

Avey Tare played his guitar through an Ibanez delay rack and Boss pitch shifter/delay pedal to create a doubled, fuller sound, since he was the only one playing guitar at the time.

Herman Li

On 9 May 2010, Li announced via Facebook that he had received a custom-made Ibanez 7-string guitar.

Hoshino Gakki

The Ibanez effect pedals were licensed from the Nisshin Onpa Company who own the Maxon brand.

Ibanez Tube Screamer

Also, Maxon, who produced the original Tube Screamer pedals for the Ibanez brand in the 1970s and 1980s, produce their own version of the Tube Screamer.

Isaac Díaz Pardo

At this point he experimented with the raw materials used in original 19th Century works by Antonio Raimundo Ibáñez Llano y Valdés (notably from Sargadelos and Cervo).

Matthew Seligman

Matthew has always played a black Fender Jazz bass as his first choice instrument, and in addition uses an Ibanez with a C-ducer contact mic placed on the neck, close to the neck/body junction, for his fretless work primarily with Thomas Dolby, but also Peter Murphy and, more recently, in an ambient collection recorded with Japan/Hong Kong based musician Jan Linton for the Sendai Earthquake relief fund, due to be released by Entropy Records in 2012.

Óscar Ibáñez

Óscar Manuel Ibáñez Holzmann (born August 8, 1967 in Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina) is a Peruvian football goalkeeper, who made his debut for the national team on April 18, 1998.

The Boarding School

La residencia, a 1969 Spanish horror film directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador.

Univox Super-Fuzz

Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys uses the Ibanez Standard Fuzz, a nearly identical circuit in an altered housing.


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