Private company

Maestro Guitars

Logo: https://www.maestroguitars.com/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

Singaporean musical instrument maker

Maestro Guitars is a guitar manufacturing company based in Singapore. It is best known for creating custom-made acoustic guitars and ukuleles. The founder is Ho Zen Yong, a former Singapore Management University (SMU) graduate.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Maestro Guitars is a guitar manufacturing company based in Singapore. It is best known for creating custom-made acoustic guitars and ukuleles. The founder is Ho Zen Yong, a former Singapore Management University (SMU) graduate. Their instruments are used by professional Italian musician Franco Morone and were also used by guitarist Paul Ponnudorai.2

The story

The founder of Maestro Guitars, Ho Zen, started off learning how to fix guitars in his father’s piano shop. In 2004, he improved his guitar-making skills by learning them from an English luthier Chris Horton, in Goa. He further understudied with the famed Ervin Somogyi in 2015 in a bid to increase the responsiveness of his guitars. Upon his return in 2006, Ho Zen started Maestro Guitars Singapore's workshop in Kaki Bukit.

The company's name, Maestro, was inspired by the Spanish word of the same spelling which translates to mean "master". In music, a "maestro" refers to someone who is a master in his art, especially a composer, conductor or music teacher.

In 2015, Maestro Guitars launched two new acoustic guitar models and showcasing a few models from their Double Top Series and Island Series ukuleles at the NAMM Show.

From Wikipedia’s article on Maestro guitars, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • steel-string acoustic guitar
  • ukulele

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Timeline

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