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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Info on old Beltone reso. | | Date: | , November 1, 2005 03:35:44 (+0100) | | From: | Scott <sbreneman_2004 @.....com>
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Yep, that's it. Exactly how you described it except that
mine is red and black. Thanks for the help.
Scott
Richard DeNeve <richard_d13132@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Scott,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I believe it was a round neck with a nut riser, and a
> stamped trapeze tailpiece. The "binding" was a white
> paint stripe.
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> I don't know when they began making them, or how many
> varieties there may have been.
>
> Dick DeNeve
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