Bacon and Day- Rim
- Categories
- Audio Visual Collections > Banjo Construction Photograph Archive
- Subject
- Banjo Construction Photographic Collection
- Musical instruments
- Type
- digital image
- Coverage - Temporal
- 2016
- Identifier
- Bacon and Day- Rim7.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
- Description
- Banjos without flanges have what are known as shoes to hold the hooks and nuts. A hook attaches to the stretcher band, goes through the hole in the shoe and the nut is screwed on beneath the shoe, which is bolted to the rim This photo shows the the hooks and nuts attached to the shoes. The Bacon Banjo Company was in Groton, Connecticut and was owned and operated by Fred Bacon and David L. Day. The company was started by Fred Bacon in 1906 in Forest Dale, Vermont and later moved to Groton, Connecticut. David L. Day joined the company in 1922. The company was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938 and the business was later sold to Gretsch.
- Rights
- Copyright is held by Radford University. If you would like to use the materials please contact the Archives & Special Collections at archives@radford.edu. The images are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Banjo Construction Photograph Collection, Appalachian Collection, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use or unauthorized reproduction of these photographs, without the written permission of the copyright owner, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.
