Please come and see us! Running from April 30th to May 2nd, this event was started originally in 1991 as a meeting point for guitar collectors, but in a very short time the festival became a classic appointment not only for the vintage and high-end guitar fans, but also for all those who consider themselves music lovers. Soave 2010 Guitar Festival – the 19th edition of the event – will celebrate 50 years from that 1960 This event will run along three days. Please click here to go to the Soave guitar festival site

The fantastic Acoustic guitar meeting in Sarzana is of course taking place also in 2010. Come along and find us!

ACOUSTIC GUITAR MEETING
Festival internazionale di chitarra acustica – Appuntamento a Sarzana (La Spezia)
19-20-21-22-23 maggio 2010 FORTEZZA FIRMAFEDE
SARZANA (SP) ITALY
13a edizione

Please click here for the official site

Always wanted to know what timbers are used for Maton guitars?

Australia has a wide range of under-utilised tonewoods, and as the supply of traditional material diminishes these timbers will come into their own as a world standard. Many of the Australian timbers are plantation grown and will yield musical instruments after 80 years, as opposed to the hundreds of years required for traditional woods.

Maton has been developing the use of these timbers for the last 50 years and it would be safe to say that nobody knows Australian tonewoods better than Maton. Read the full article here