c.1920 Bacon Professional FF Banjo Mando

[Jake Wildwood]

Here's a rarity that I worked on for a customer!

Full write-up and more pics (click here) at my blog. (http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2012/01/c1920-bacon-professional-ff-banjo.html)

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[Jill McAuley]

Oh that is very nice indeed!

Cheers,
Jill

[Bill Van Liere]

Sweet lookin banjo Jake, very clean.

I am not sure why we don't hear more about Bacon instruments on the Cafe. About thirty years back I had a friend (actually a sound man for a band I was in) that had a Bacon oval hole which his family had owned for a very long time. I was primarily a guitar player then and did not know a lot about mandolins, but I remember that Bacon sounded much better to me than his import F5 copy.

[Jim Garber]

I have a couple of Bacon mandolins, my best being the artist model (copied by Eastman as the DG2, I think). This mandolin-banjo is esp nice since it has that fancy built-in-donut resonator. I have friend who plays an original 5 string version and they are amasing instruments.

[Jake Wildwood]

They have an interesting "cluck" to them which is very nice... not the raspy thin high like on a lot of bigger-tonering instruments.

[Jim Garber]

They have an interesting "cluck" to them which is very nice... not the raspy thin high like on a lot of bigger-tonering instruments.

Hmmmm... play Chicken Reel.