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Penco guitars for sale3/12/2024 To start, Penco DID have a connection to Hoshino Gakki. More holes in it than a screen door on a sub. Well well, this Wikipedia article has to be the award winner of absolute junk. So, basically an Ibanez, differently labeled? The Ibanez line was distributed on the West coast of the U.S., the Greco was exclusively for Japan, and Penco was distributed on the East coast of the U.S. These were identical to the Ibanez Destroyer and the Greco Destroyer of the same period. The Penco brand was also put on "lawsuit" Korina-finished Explorer styled guitars. They also made excellent 12 string acoustic guitars. They also made bolt neck copies of Les Paul electrics, SG guitars and basses, Rickenbacker 4001 basses, Stratocaster/Telecaster copies and the odd mandolin and banjo. Some were fully solid wood, & some were laminate. Penco made Martin and Gibson style acoustic guitars. The Penco brand was of relatively high quality and part of the "copy guitar/lawsuit guitar" craze of the 1970s. Penco was a brand of guitars manufactured circa 1974 to 1978 in the same factory (Hoshino Gakki) in Japan as the Ibanez guitars and was distributed by the Philadelphia Music Exchange. Not that it's the ultimate authority (and the article is labeled as an "orphan"), but here's what Wikipedia has to say about Penco:
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