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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Info on old Beltone reso. | | Date: | Monday, October 31, 2005 17:57:24 (-0800) | | From: | Richard DeNeve <richard_d13132 @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 543 (written by Scott) |
Scott,
I had one of these. Bought it used in about 1965 for
$45, and found out a couple of months later I could
have bought a new one for $42.50. (The following
year, it was no longer listed in the music store's
catalogue.) I traded it in a short while later on a
Moserite Dobro which, while not great, was a giant
step over the Beltone.
The Beltone was brown plywood, with a chrome plated
steel cover plate with a pattern of holes punched
(rather than die-cut) in it. Indeed the "cone" was a
paper radio speaker sort of thing, whose center rested
on a block of wood glued to the back of the guitar.
There was a slat of wood from side to side under the
cover plate about like a wooden paint stirrer - about
an inch wide and an eighth of an inch thick. A piece
of dowel went from the underside of this slat to the
center of the cone, and a notched triangular stick of
wood glued to the slat was the bridge.
I believe it was a round neck with a nut riser, and a
stamped trapeze tailpiece. The "binding" was a white
paint stripe.
I don't know when they began making them, or how many
varieties there may have been.
Dick DeNeve
--- Scott <sbreneman_2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone. I new to the list a I was wondering if
> you all could help me. I bought an old Beltone
> resonator, I think from the mid 1930's, and was
> looking for info about it. The guitar has a metal
> coverplate and f-holes, but the cone inside is paper
> instead of aluminum. So far I've had no no luck
> finding reference to this anywhere. Does anyone know
> anything about it.
> Thanks
> Scott Breneman
>
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