Articles by Ben Rogers

The Maton K10 Capitol is a plywood archtop that was originally marketed “for the beginner in the modern or country style”. They were built in the Maton factory in Canterbury, Vic for several years from 1959, and this one was made in 1960.   

Everyone remembers their first time. This was mine. Attending an auction to bid for a guitar.

John Joseph Rogers from Millicent (South Australia) and Grace Mabel Beatrice Fitzgibbon from Williamstown (Victoria) were married in 1917. They lived in a modest weatherboard house on a vineyard in Merbein, North-West Victoria. John Rogers had purchased the virgin land and planted it with grapevines – primarily sultanas – soon after the Merbein irrigation settlement was established in 1909. John and Grace raised 13 children on the property. My father John (Jack) was the first-born, whilst the last was Kevin, born in 1931, and later to be known throughout the clan as “Unk”.