Most readers know that Tommy Emmanuel’s mentor Chet Atkins dubbed him a “C.G.P.” meaning Certified Guitar Player, but Certified Guitar Performer is also appropriate given the dazzling display he puts ...
THERE’S nothing quite like the sound of a six-string being plucked by a perfectionist, but every good guitarist needs an equally good guitar. Enter Box Hill’s Maton Guitars. But every good guitarist ...
A Maton Mastersound MS500 electric guitar, authenticated to have been played by George Harrison during a series of concerts by the just starting Beatles in 1963, sold for almost half a million dollars ...
The term "best-kept-secret" is one that has been applied to guitarist Tommy Emmanuel for years. But lately that's changing: His jaw-dropping acoustic prowess, one which prompted his idol and mentor, ...
It's a great NZ Music month for Aly Cook! The New Zealand female Country Artist of the Year has a busy time regularly travelling around the country and crossing the Tasman performing. In the next few ...
All that work has allowed Hanna to build a comfortable life for his wife and their two sons, and inside the home he built for his family is a room that looks much smaller than it actually is, for ...
Australian country music star Lawrie Minson has erupted at Qantas luggage handlers after the metal case holding his custom Maton guitar was destroyed. Minson shared photos and video of the clumsily ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Guitar maker Maton is enjoying enough of a sales boom that it needs three more staff at its Melbourne factory – but can't find ...
What: Maton: Australia’s Guitar, an exhibition of instruments by Australia’s leading guitar manufacturer Maton. Missy Higgins with her Maton guitar. Martin Philbey Melbourne-born jazz musician, ...
THIEVES are on the run with two $20,000 guitars, one signed by Billy Thorpe and Normie Rowe, after they broke into a Box Hill South music museum. Police are hunting for thieves who raided the music ...
George Harrison‘s Maton Mastersound guitar, used during the Beatles’ live performances in the summer of 1963, sold for $485,000 at Julien’s Auctions Friday. The auction, which focused entirely on ...