Bacon (after Day) Belmont Belmont 5 string Reviews

Bacon (after Day) Belmont Belmont 5 string submitted 2/19/2004 Submitter mattiskim (see all reviews from this person) Where Purchased Janet Davis Music Year Purchased 2004 Price Paid 650.00 ($US) (bought USED) Sound Very bright loud sound. NO tone ring. Its just a wooden hoop ring with bolt on resonator. Thin/Old Timey [ sort of a frailing type sound]. Its not a Mastertone or tubaphone or other sound. It sounds like it does. Its not a bluegrass sound more like an old-time with resonator. Sound Rating 7 Setup Set up by Janet Davis. GREAT SETUP Setup Rating 10 Appearance Very nice banjo. A 1956 model in VERY GOOD/EXCELLENT condition. Looks almost new. Great MOTS [mother of toilet seat] plastic bound resonator. it looks OLD and NEW at the same time. Very RETRO. Appearance Rating 9 Reliability Seems like a good instrument. BUT it was made in 1956 by Gretsch [B&D owner then] and most Gretsch instruments seem to hold up. Only time will tell. Reliability Rating 6 Customer Service B&D and The Orginial Gretsch Co. are LONG GONE> NO C.S. . However, Janet Davis gave a small warrenty with it and she has answered all of my questions both on e-mail and on the phone Rating = B&D= 0 Janet Davis=10 Customer Service 5 Components Banjo is well made. Its very retro-formica/plastic of the era. I would not expect to see a 2001 model made like this. Some short cuts can be seen in manufacturing. Parts are weird even for 50's banjo. so exact replacement parts may be tough. It came 100% original [exc. new HSC] Components Rating 7 Overall Comments Nice, strange sounding, werid looking relic from banjo's Overall Rating 7