About Us


Corporate Name

 Ishibashi Music Corporation
Date of Foundation June, 1979
Inauguration of Business June, 1938
Capital Fund 74 million JPY(approximately 660 Thousand USD/May, 2016)
President (CEO) Katsunori Igarashi
Employee number 446 (August 2016)
Sales Amount 11,584 million JPY (approximately 104 million USD/May, 2016)

Business Content

Retail sales of musical instruments and music related products

Categories

  • Electric and acoustic guitars, Drum Kits, Synthesizers, Digital Pianos, Wind and Brass instruments, DJ gears, Professional Audio equipments, Recordings, Sound booths, Software, Music scores, books, Manuals and many other items related to music!
  • Merchandise development of private brand products
    * Development plan, manufacturing, wholesale trade and retail sales of new instruments or related products
  • Online Sales (Mail-order)
  • Operation of (Yamaha) Music Schools
  • Retail sales of second hand (used) instruments
  • Imports of musical instruments and related products
    *Imports of overseas brand musical instruments and related products, Purchasing vintage and second hand instruments at a particular location, Developmental Import of private brand instruments from oversea subcontract factories

Exclusive Agent

Ishibashi Music Corp is an exclusive agent/importer and seller of the following overseas brand…

  • ADM SARL[Dupont Guitar](France)
  • ALPINE HEARING PROTECTION (Netherlands)
  • Australian Native Musical Instruments P/L [Cole Clark](Australia)
  • Benado Effects(USA)
  • Conklin Guitars & Basses(USA)
  • DHP Corp.[Black Smith Strings] (Koria)
  • Fender Music Company Japan[EVH](Japan)
  • Galli Musical Strings (Italy)
  • Hiwatt Amplication Ltd(U.K)
  • Kenneth Lawrence Guitars(USA)
  • Knaggs Guitars(USA)
  • Mooradian Case(USA)
  • Public Peace Music Productions[Maruszczyk/Mensinger](Germany)
  • SONIC SYSTEM APPLICATION [SSAUDIO] (Taiwan)
  • Status Graphite (UK)
  • Swiff Technology Co,. Ltd (China)
  • The British Pedal Company (U.K)
  • U. S. Music Corp[Washburn](USA)
  • Vibrato (Thailand)

Partner Companies

  • Yamaha Corporation
  • Roland Corporation
  • Yamano Music Co., Ltd
  • Gibson Guitar Corporation Japan
  • Kanda Shokai Corporation
  • KORG INC.
  • Banking Relationship
  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
  • SHOKO CHUKIN BANK
  • Chiba Bank
  • Tokyo Tomin Bank

Store Location

Please refer to the following web page for more information.

 

 

Corporate History

1938
June
Ishibashi begin operation as a small shop handling musical instruments in Suruga-dai, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku.
1950
 
Ishibashi changes its name as "Ishibashi Music"
1953
January
With a capital fund of 300 thousand yen, "Ishibashi Music S/A" is established.
1973
March
With a capital 10 million yen, "Ishibashi Music S/A" reorganize as "Ishibashi Music Corporation."
April
"Rock Side" opens in Ochanomizu. Tokyo, which is specialized in digital musical instruments.
1976
April
"Shibuya" branch opens in Shibuya Koen St.
1979
February
"Keyboard Mart" branch opens in Ochanomizu
1981
February
"Shinjuku" branch opens near Isetan Department Building in Shinjuku St.
1983
June
Add capital stock to 40 million yen.
1986
April
"Ikebukuro" branch opens in Ikebukuro Sunshine Street.
1988
January
"Yokohama" branch opens in Kanagawa prefecture.
June
Add capital stock to 1 hundred million yen.
1989
November
"Shinsaibashi" branch opens in Osaka prefecture.
1991
October
"Shinsaibashi" branch re-opens in Shinsaibashi Parco department building.
1994
March
"Ikebukuro" branch re-opens in Ikebukuro P’Parco department building.
1995
July
"Shibuya" branch re-opens in Capri Building.
1996
September
Ishibashi Web Shop opens.
1997
December
"Kawagoe" branch opens in Saitama prefecture.
1998
October
"Tsudanuma" branch opens in Chiba prefecture.
1999
March
"Machida" branch opens in Machida City, Tokyo.
2000
April
Add capital fund to 125 million yen.
October
"Kobe Sannomiya" branch opens in Hyogo prefecture.
November
"Nagoya Sakae" branch opens in Aichi prefecture.
2001
November
"Ochanomizu Book Side" branch reopens and "*1 Kaitori Center" opens in Ochanomizu.
*1 Kaitori Center: A place where we buy used (second hand) instruments from our customers.
2003
June
"Yokohama" branch reopens with floor space expanded.
2004
November
"Shibuya" branch reopens in Shibuya BEAM building with floor space expanded.
2005
April
"Nagoya Sakae" branch reopens in Skyle department store building. “Lesson” (A Music School for Grown-ups) begin a series of musical instrument lessons.
October
"Umeda" branch opens in Nu Chayamachi department building of Osaka.
2007
March
"Kawagoe" branch opens inside Kawagoe Modi department store building with floor space expanded. "Lesson" begins series of musical instrument lessons for grown-ups at the same time.
September
"Tachikawa" branch opens in Tokyo.
October
"Machida" branch reopens inside Machida Jorna department store building.
2008
May
"Ikebukuro" branch reopens on the 7th floor of P'PARCO department building.
2009
August
All stores in the Ochanomizu area reopens.
October
"Shibuya WEST" (Drums/Used Wind and Brass musical instrument shop) opens on the 2nd floor of ASSORTI building.
2010
March
"Fukuoka-parco" branch opens in Fukuoka.
2010
March
"Fukuoka-parco" branch opens in Fukuoka.
2011
April
Shinsaibashi branch reopens in America-mura.
October
Umeda branch reopens.
December
In Shanghai (China), founded subsidiary of the 100% owned, the Shanghai Ishibashi Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.
2012
April
Shanghai branch opens in China.
2014
September
All stores in the Ochanomizu area reopens.And "Ochanomizu Drum-Kan" branch opens
2015
August
Yokohama branch reopens on the 2nd,3rd floor of Soutetsu Minami Saiwai 7th building.
December
"Music-Cash Omiya" branch opens in Omiya,Saitama."Music-Cash" is a coined word of the meaning the musical instrument store which changes a musical instrument to money.
2016
February
Tsudanuma branch as "Music-Cash City Tsudanuma" reopens
June
Machida branch as "Music-Cash Machida" reopens on the 6th floor of RINS ONE building.
September
"Music-Cash Sapporo" branch opens in Sapporo,Hokkaido
December
"Music-Cash Sendai" branch opens in Sendai,Miyagi
2017
May
"SHIBUYA EAST" branch opens in Shibuya,Tokyo
2017
July
All stores in the Ochanomizu area reopens.And "Ochanomizu Honten South" branch reopens
2018
July
"FINEST GUITARS" branch opens in Ochanomizu,Tokyo
April
"HARVEST GUITARS" branch opens in Ochanomizu,Tokyo