BMG movement
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The Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar movement is a music genre based on the family of fretted stringed instruments played with a plectrum or fingers, with or without fingerpicks. The instruments include the
The November 1903 of BMG magazine, first published by Clifford Essex in London.
The Banjo, Mandolin & Guitar Club at Washington & Jefferson College in the 1890s
Advertisement for the American Guild of banjoists, mandoliniists and guitarists, 1918. It featured prominent instrumentalists of the movement, mandolinist Samuel Siegel, banjoist Frederick J. Bacon and guitarist William Foden.
Frederick J. Bacon
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Frederick J. Bacon was a late 19th to mid 20th century performer and recording artist on the five string banjo. He was also an inventor and entrepreneur, educator, composer, and designer and manufactu
Frederick J. Bacon with his banjo, at the annual concert of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists, at Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia, May 27, 1918. He performed with Samuel Siegel and William Foden.
Bacon Professional FF #3 Banjo, made by Vega in 1907 and S.S. Stewart Little Wonder Piccolo banjo, 1897
Headstock of Bacon Professional FF 3 Banjo, called the "Chubby Dragon"
Resonator for Bacon banjos, which he patented in 1906