Bacon Banjo Mandolin
date: label: Date made
content: 1918-1920
label: date made
content: 1920-1922
name: label: maker
content: Bacon Banjo Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This banjo mandolin was made by the Bacon Banjo Co., Inc. in Groton, Connecticut around 1920-1922. It is a Banjo Mandolin Professional FF 3 model, serial #6896, with 20 brackets, 8 machine gear tuners. This instrument features the Bacon internal resonator design and Bacon's proprietary tone ring. This instrument features the following patent:<p>
label: Description
content: <p>U. S. Patent #823985 dated June 19, 1906, by Frederick J. Bacon, for improvements in the construction of banjos.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Banjo mandolins are strung, tuned and played like regular mandolins, making it easy for players of the popular mandolin to add a banjo-like sound to their repertoire. The same idea also led to the creation of banjo ukuleles, banjo guitars and similar hybrid instruments. Advertising for these instruments was largely aimed at countless amateur banjo, mandolin and guitar clubs, ensembles, and vaudeville troupes which flourished from the late 19th century until the 1930s.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Groton
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Banjos
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William L. Monical
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0679.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0679
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0679.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banjo mandolin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 5/8 in x 11 in x 3 1/2 in; 60.0075 cm x 27.94 cm x 8.89 cm