The Maton Story - The First Sixty Years - DVD Chapter 1

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Taken from the back cover of "The First Sixty Years" DVD:
This DVD documents the inspiring story behind Australia's largest guitar manufacturing company. Bill May was just 17 years old when he built his first guitar. He was a craftsman, musician and a visionary and, thanks to archival footage, Bill can tell us his story.
The story begins in Melbourne's northern suburbs in 1946, when Bill with his wife Vera, founded the Maton Guitar Company. In the years that followed, the popularity of this Australian-made guitar, saw the company grow from a dusty workshop into a thriving business, producing one of the worlds most sought-after guitars.
We follow raw timber on its journey from the Australian forest to the craftsmen, then from the craftsmen, to the musician. You'll see testimonials and performances from some of Australia's most respected musicians -- including an in-depth interview with the master "Tommy Emmanuel" who tells us about his life long love affair with Maton guitars.
With guitarists all over the world seeking out the unique "May" tone, Maton Guitars earned a reputation as one of the world's finest, fulfilling Bill May's dream and continuing his legacy.
Maton Guitars remains a family-owned, Australian company and is now firmly established internationally, as a quality guitar maker.
© Copyright 2006 The Maton Guitar Company

[@AustralianInSiberia]

I met Bill May in person. I showed him my Southern Star with floating bridge and asked what can be done to impronve the resonance. He fixed the floating bridge and had surgical shavings of the interiior done. The sound which resulted was terrfic! I regret I lost the guitar when I jumnped off the train at Taree without it, in my haste to get a hire car to go up the bush. I had a newspaper in Port Macquarie advertise it in an article, but now... it is still out there somewhere.

[@frank19593]

What a story mate Cheers

[@jrjr227]

my guitar maton......i love great pickup system !! ap5 mic !!

[@darrenallen2630]

I would love to work in this factory maton guitars are a fantastic sounding instrument

[@SergeUnplugged]

Brilliant sounding instruments, wish i could afford one

[@bbking0064]

The founders seem like very nice people.

[@StevePhillips]

Brilliant video great guitar. I heard about Maton from justinguitar.com he says these are the best and he should know if anyone should. He taught Katie Melua to play guitar from scratch, and she is pretty cool...