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Found a vintage Maton? Would like to know when your Maton guitar was made?

You can search the Maton online archives to find about every Maton guitar model ever built. Creating this archive is a big task and it’s an ongoing one. Please click here.

Messiah Music Italia has recently turned 10. Thank you to our customers, fellow musicians and friends for having made this possible. Here is what our friends from Maton have to say about us:

http://www.maton.com.au/events/10-years-of-maton-in-italy.html

For those of you that are in Australia at the moment or going there in January 2010…

Them Crooked Vultures (abbreviated as TCV), the rock music Supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2005 is on the way Downunder. Comprising vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss and Eagles of Death Metal), drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) and bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), making the term “Supergroup” a wee understatement.
The band also features Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age) as a live rhythm guitarist.

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Messiah is happy to announce that we will be offering special custom shop guitars from Maton for the Italian market.

Maton’s Custom Shop provides you with the ultimate personal guitar experience. As the customer, you are invited to specify body shape, colour, decorative inlays and be involved in the selection of premium tone woods.

Get inspired!  - Download the Custom Shop catalogue

The Maton Custom Shop experience provides you with the opportunity to have a say in the dynamics of the desired sound speaking face-to-face with the craftsman who will build the guitar for you.

You can be guaranteed that Maton will build a guitar that you can truthfully say is unique, a one-off.

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Australia’s premier rock act Powderfinger have recently been spied around Australia promoting their new album “Golden Rule”, set to be released on 13 November 2009. When you have an Acoustic Job to do – what brand do Powderfinger choose?

Check out this article and pics from Australian newspaper “The Age”.

The BG808 Performer Series

This new guitar series continues the success of the BG808. It carries the original 808 shape with a slightly thinner body and soft cutaway. Its Bunya soundboard provides the volume and punch to more than compensate for a small body. Comfort and playability are the keys to this purpose built series.

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The Performer Series L-R:

EBG808CLG (Cherry)
EBG808CLG (Vintage Amber)
EBG808CL (Natural)