Maton Mastersound Serial Numbers Lookup

Maton
Private
Industry	Musical instruments
Founded	1946; 73 years ago
Founder	Bill and Reg May
Headquarters	Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia
Global
Products	Electric & acoustic guitars basses guitars Ukuleles
Website	www.maton.com.au

Maton is an Australian manufacturer of guitars and other frettedmusical instruments.

Maton was founded in 1946 as the Maton Musical Instruments Company by Bill May and his brother Reg. Reg was a wood machinist, and Bill a jazz musician, woodwork teacher and luthier who had for some years operated a custom guitar building and repair business under the name Maton Stringed Instruments and Repairs. The name 'Maton' came from the words 'May Tone' and is pronounced May Tonne.

Maton JB6 is a 1970s guitar manufactured by Maton. It features a thin solid body, short scale 24 fret design, two humbucking pick-ups, two tone controls, one volume, in/out phase toggle for bridge pick-up and standard three way pick-up selector toggle switch. The serial numbers are a mystery and as much as can be nutted out the A series were in the 50's, the B series were early 60's (roughly) and I guess then your serial number is post that if there is no letter. Pity Maton didn't keep clearer records. For that, Maton was always going to have to step up the features while keeping the 'look' and sense of the classic Maton appeal. The carve top Mastersound was and is this challenge met. Originally re-issued by Maton under the guidance of a friend of mine, Adam Cole, the Mastersound was the obvious choice to break Maton back into the solidbody. Here you can search the online archives to find about every Maton guitar model ever built. Creating this archive is a big task and it’s an ongoing one. We want to thank all of the people who have helped out in improving the accuracy and completeness of what we call the Maton Museum. Sep 30, 2010 Maton serial numbers. I emailed Maton for a year of build for the JB4 bass I scored this week. I gave them the serial, and they emailed me back and said it's April 1959. I think the tea lady answered the email for them and used the 459 serial to deduce the date she gave me. What are they smoking - I clearly said that it's a JB4 bass.

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At first the company produced high-quality acoustic instruments for students and working professionals, aiming at providing good value for money and experimenting with the use of Australian woods. In the 1960s they expanded into electric instruments and instrument amplifiers, at first under the name Magnetone. The early catalogues noted that the warranties on amplifiers and loudspeakers were void if used in situations of 'overload or distortion', reflecting May's jazz background but incredible to modern electric guitarists of any style.

Maton established itself early on the Australian rock scene in the late 1950s, assisted by Australia's tariff regime, which made imported guitars far more expensive than the local equivalents. Maton guitars were used by many well-known Australian pop and rock groups including Col Joye & The Joy Boys. The company also made one of the first sponsorship deals in Australian rock, supplying Melbourne band The Strangers with a full set of the distinctive 'El Toro' model guitars and basses (notable for their outlandish 'horned' body shape) while the group was working as the house band on the TV pop show The Go!! Show in the mid-Sixties.

Maton earned international renown for their superb acoustic and electric guitars and basses, which have been played by scores of famous performers from The Easybeats to The Wiggles.^[1]George Harrison owned one of their MS500 models, which were introduced in 1957 and famed British session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan owned and used a Maton 'Cello' guitar for many years during the peak of his career, playing it on recordings with Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Keating and his Big Band and Neil Finn from Crowded House.

1973 Maton CW80/12, a successor model to the FG150/12

Australian singer Frank Ifield also owned and used a Maton guitar, which he later had fitted with a custom-made scratch plate, made in the shape of a map of Australia. Frank gave this instrument to his guitarist Ray Brett when he returned to Australia, and it has been featured on an episode of the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow. Although these guitars are now normally worth around UK£2,000, expert Bunny Campione valued Ifield's guitar at between UK£10,000 and UK£15,000, because Ifield had used it in songs featured in a compilation album alongside The Beatles' first two singles.^[2]

Easybeats lead guitarist Harry Vanda is probably the best-known Maton player of the Sixties, and his famous red Maton Sapphire semi-acoustic 12-string (which he donated to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney in 1999) was an integral part of the Easybeats' sound throughout their career, and features prominently on hit singles like 'I'll Make You Happy'.

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Guitarist Phil Manning of Chain is another well-known user and endorser. Also in the Sixties, Keith Potger's Maton FG150/12 twelve string guitar was a prominent part of the sound of The Seekers.

Australian guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel, owns many Matons and almost exclusively uses the BG808 acoustic model on his latest albums. Maton has even constructed a Tommy Emmanuel 'TE series' according to Tommy's specifications. His understudy Kieran Murphy also uses Matons. Joe Robinson plays Maton guitars and was the company's featured performer at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 2009.^[3]

Artist Paul Town, who now lives in Baildon, was 15 at the time of the fire. It was an awful thing to watch.' The blaze causing the deaths of 56 supporters in one of the worst incidents in British football Getty Coming to terms Witnesses of the fire have come to terms with the tragedy in different ways. Bradford city stadium fire video. Those who escaped walked to a nearby pub to use the phone to ring home, while others arrived in a daze outside the police headquarters to try and trace relatives.

R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills used a fretless Maton MGB4 on the song 'Fretless', which was the b-side of 'Losing My Religion' in Britain and Australia. The bass, painted with an Australian flag, was presented to him during the 1989 'Green World Tour' by then Maton employee Cameron Miller who had originally purchased it in 1986.

In 2002 Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme released the film clip to hit single 'No One Knows' in which he played a Maton MS520 and since has become a regular user of Maton guitars. He now also endorses the company —the only such endorsement he has accepted, despite offers from the world's biggest luthiers. His Signature model is the BB1200JH. The BB abbreviation standing for Betty Blue, the colour of one of the original prototypes that Maton created.

Brody Dalle former Distillers frontwoman and current Spinnerette member has been using Maton guitars for many years and she is also the wife to fellow Maton user Josh Homme

Horror tiles rpg maker vx ace sprites download. Australian musician John Butler from The John Butler Trio performs and records with Maton guitars.

Former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay uses a selection of Maton Custom Shop Guitars as part of his solo live show and recounts an anecdote of a concert-goer's mispronunciation of the name.

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Maton Mastersound Serial Numbers