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  Dear interested readers

I'm planning to make a bit of a historical overview about

the (Salvador) Ibanez guitars that reached me along the lifetime

line. Of course the Japanese company is widely known but the

origin of this luthier / manufacturer is already less known as

there were several other luthiers that were importing instruments 

from his factory. The simpler instruments were mass produced 

but even then,  the result can be astonishing in some cases.

Later in the 20th century Telesforo Julve took over and even

produced guitars under the "Ibanez" name. And to make it

even more confusing, Telesforo Julve made entire instruments

and parts for the Barcelona based luthier Juan Estruch. When

searching for the older guitars it is remarkable that Jaime Ribot

and Francisco Pau y Lisart labelled guitars do resemble the 

Salvador Ibanez guitars (too) much. It simply was customary

to built guitars for others in Spain and not putting your own 

label in it. Apart from that it is possible that the marquetry was 

imported from a third party. The student guitars from the fifties 

Jose Ramirez presented, also came from Valencia, bearing a 

dark blue label but produced by the Hijos de Vicente Tatay 

company.  A little bit of investigation learns that they were 

exactly the same guitars. So Valencia played and still plays 

an important role in guitar history in Spain. In order to get an 

insight in the Valencian roots regarding guitar building, I can 

only advise you to visit the website of my friend Ton Bogaard: 

guitarrasvalencia.wordpress