pronunciation of "ibanez"?

k this might sound REALLY stupid, but how do you pronounce "ibanez"? is it like "ih-ben-ez", "eye-bañez", "ih-bañez", or something else? i've heard all 3 of those and i never knew which was the real one

Ibanez i call it,not Eyebanez

so thats Ib - an ez? lol

What a great thread haha

I'm 95% sure it's pronounced eye-ban-ez.

Around Serbia it is pronounced as /i'banez/. That "a" is the really short like in "up", and the "e" is also short like in "extra".
Although, here around the norther area of Serbia, some pronounce it like /iba'ne:z/, but that's due to Hungarian influence.

about 12 seconds in this vid pronouces it.

It looks pretty offical, so I'd go with that.

It's a spanish word, ee ban ez.

BlackF89 wrote:It's a spanish word, ee ban ez.

I knew I was right.

BlackF89 wrote:It's a spanish word, ee ban ez.

That's it!

The rest of the world says eye-banez.

Dropthelines585 wrote:The rest of the world says eye-banez.

Then the rest of the world is wrong

I've always pronounced it ee ban ez. Everyone I've come across does it that way. xD

I used to say, ee-ban-ez, but everyone i know says eye-banez, now i cant decide lol

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It's eebanez not eyebanez because i say so.

I've always gone with eye-ben-ez. That's how people seem to understand it here atleast, if someone said "ee-ban-ez" they'd probably just get laughed at and told otherwise.

Learn something new everyday (not really though)

but it is pronounced ee-ban-ez! well I think ee-ban-eth would be closer to the real prounciation..

Aster wrote:but it is pronounced ee-ban-ez! well I think ee-ban-eth would be closer to the real prounciation..

this man speaks truth

BlackF89 wrote:

Aster wrote:but it is pronounced ee-ban-ez! well I think ee-ban-eth would be closer to the real prounciation..

this man speaks truth

I would... if I were a man! --but I'm not-- hahahahahahaha

Aster wrote:

BlackF89 wrote:

Aster wrote:but it is pronounced ee-ban-ez! well I think ee-ban-eth would be closer to the real prounciation..

this woman speaks truth

I would... if I were a man! --but I'm not-- hahahahahahaha

xD

now it's okay hahahaha

I think Asters right.. Thats how I've always heard it like.. ee-ban-eth

It doesn't matter what's right. This is at the Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe point where it won't do any good to know how it's actually supposed to be pronounced.

I've alwyas just pronounced it I(as in the letter i)-ban-ez.
made sense to me.

I always pronounced Minotaur mine-oh-tore, even after hearing loads of people say mihn-a-tore I still pronounce it mine-oh-tore. Ibanez isn't going to be any different

From the wikipedia..

(Ibanez (pronounced /ˈaɪbænɛz/ or /aɪˈbænɛz/) is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki)

So that would be Eye-be-nez then..

Apparently in 1929 Hoshino Gakki were importing Salvador Ibanez guitars (presumably pronounced then I-ban-eth) from Spain.

When the Salvador Ibanez workshop was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, Hoshino Gakki bought the rights to the name and started to produce Salvador Ibanez spanish acoustic guitars in 1935, the name was later shortened to just Ibanez.

Given that the Japanese language structure is so completely different to Western Latin based languages I would think that Eye-ben-ez is the most likely pronunciation with Ib-an-eth being the pronunciation when Salvador Ibanez was the sole producer in Spain.

Gosh - I did go on a bit there didn't I?

Thank you for being the one to actually look it up!

Kudos! haha