D330E - Alaskan Spruce/Indian Rosewood

Matchetts Music is a family-owned shop in central Belfast, ninety years old in 2026. Stanley Matchett opened the original storefront on Wellington Place in 1936; the building was lost during the Troubles in the 1970s, and the business was acquired in 1979 by Derek and Ann Crowther, whose son Neil and daughter Tamara now run it a few doors down on the same street. They sell the full breadth of musical instruments — guitars through drums through brass through pianos — but for boutique-acoustic players, the distinguishing feature is their Lowden room: Matchetts is Lowden's home-region authorized stockist, the closest dealer to where the guitars are built, with Original, 35, and 50 Series instruments typically on the floor.