How do you pronounce 'Ibanez'?

[ibanezdiehard]

Originally Posted by leppermessiah

In japanese it would be written イバネズ　

thanks for clearing that up

[mi2tom]

Eye ba nez

[MetalZone]

i used to pronounce it "eee ba nez".
then i started pronouncing it "eye be nez" later.
apparently the spanish and jap pronounciation calls the "I" as "eeee"
whereas the americans call it "eye"
not sure how am i supposed to pronounce it now. the Ibanez prestige website video also pronounces it as "eye be nez". and also I'm used to pronouncing it this way nowadays

[eviltwin]

I'm going for Castilian/Japanse/Dutch without the tilde or accent (Ibáñez)

EE-bah-nes

it always cracks me up to hear people say: Eye-banez or Aye-banez, almost as strange as Aye-biza, although in Catalan "Eivissa" for Ibiza is actually correct. But the name Ibiza (like many other spanish names) is in fact derived from Arab.

The surname Ibanez, however, is not of Arab origin, but it could have roots in the Basque language:
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c...-coat-arms.htm

Still, all those different versions make it very hard to establish a 'correct' pronounciation.