Ben at Sydney Guitar Setups refurbed the Maton, said it was one of the nicer sounding one's he has heard. More tellingly, Anthony said not to let 'your monkey-boy guitarists touch it'. 

As a Harp player, this instrument has more sentimental value than practical use value for me, but all the String Players who have picked it up have remarked on the tonal quality of the instrument.

It's not a super expensive guitar, now, or back then when it was new, but it has a flavour and that's kind of cool. Here's Mr Wizard trying it out. The overtones and lingering harmonics are impressive.