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Keith Urban using a Maton guitar, recording Gimme Shelter in Olympic Studios, London

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

We are critical of ourselves for not designing or manufacturing things any more. Well, there is a contrary example in the field of musical instruments. Maton, the guitar manufacturer, has been making them consistently since 1946. This is no cottage industry; the company produces an astonishing 8,000 instruments a year.

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