Founded in 1946 in Melbourne Australia, by Bill May and his brother Reg, Maton Musical Instruments Company is now Australia's longest running, and probably biggest, Guitar maker; and it is still family owned and run by Bill's Daughter and her Husband. 

It specialises in using local Australian woods for the manufacture of its instruments. Though mainly a Guitar maker, Maton made a range of Soprano Ukuleles in the 1960's and reintroduced a blackwood Concert Ukulele as one of its products in 2011. Since then they have introduced some other wood and decor options, also, in 2015, added a blackwood Tenor to its produce catalogue and now there is a couple of other Tenors too.