Frederick J. Bacon

Across his career, Fred J. Bacon played a variety of musical styles on the five-string banjo and snare drum. His performances included his own compositions such as The Fascinator and The Conqueror march, classical compositions such as Minuette a l'Antique by Paderewski, and arrangements of folk music or minstrel songs, including Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground.{{cite news |author= |title= Music and Musicians|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46722141/william-foden-giuseppe-pettine-fred/|work=Washington Herald |location= Washington D.C.|date=November 12, 1911 |access-date= March 20, 2020}}{{cite news |author= |title=Leicester |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46710417/bacon-classical-music/|work=The Brandon Union |location= Brandon, Vermont|date= July 15, 1898 |page=5 |access-date= March 20, 2020|quote= The surprise of the evening was the banjo playing of Frederick J. Bacon of Hartford Conn. Such breadth of expression and sweet music, as flowed from under his delicate touch, as the beautiful strains of Chopin's "Nocturne No. 2" filled the hall, has seldom been heard in Boston. His second number was the allegro movement from the overture to "William Tell," which was played with great brilliancy of execution. In response to a generous encore Mr. Bacon played "My Old Kentucky Home" with variations, holding his audience spellbound. He is indeed a master of the banjo. Boston Herald, May 8, 1898.}} Known mainly as a banjo player, he also continued to bring his drum on stage throughout his career, doing drum solos, and in 1936 advertised as a teacher of banjo, guitar, drums and violin.{{cite news |author= |title= ATTENTION MUSIC LOVERS! THE BACON SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46750881/bacon-school-of-music-and-art/ |work= The Brattleboro Reformer|location= Brattleboro, Vermont |date=September 25, 1934 |access-date=March 20, 2020 }}

Growing up in Connecticut, he took banjo lessons from Alfred A. Farland when he was 12-years old. Bacon began public performance at 16, in medicine shows, variety shows, and Wild West shows, playing the snare drum and swinging his banjo.{{cite web |url= https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/player-biographies |title=Fred Bacon |author= |website= classic-banjo.ning.com|access-date=March 20, 2020 |quote= by the age of 16 was working across America as a professional banjo performer...In 1908 he began teaching from a studio in Forestdale, Vermont from where he established 'The Bacon Manufacturing and Publishing Company' }}{{cite news |author= |title= Howard's Continuous Variety|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47015863/fred-bacon-drum-and-banjo-howards/|work= Boston Post |location= Boston, Massachusetts|date= April 8, 1895|access-date= March 20, 2020|quote= Fred J. Bacon, Drum and Banjo Solos}}{{cite news |author= |title=Palace Theater |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46711689/bacon-drums-swings-banjo/|work= The Boston Globe|date= October 7, 1894|access-date=March 20, 2020 |quote= Fred J. Bacon does solos on the drum and swings a banjo}} His earliest acts included roles with "Hornsby's Oats" (a stage show in Boston) and with Broncho John's Wild West Show as "Nebraska Fred." A performance poster in Boston labeled him the "Banjo Kid."

Bacon began performing on his own, under his really name and teaching the banjo. He married Cassie Maria Bacon in 1890, and the two would travel the country and eventually perform together. By 1911, Bacon had learned to play in a duo style, "playing two distinct airs at the same time."{{cite news |author= |title=Two at the Same Time |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46722230/william-foden-fred-bacon-concert/ |work=Gettysburg Times |location= Gettysburg Pennsylvania|date= October 28, 1911 |page= 1|access-date= March 20, 2020 |quote=To hear Fred Bacon, play two separate and distinct airs on the banjo at the same time, is a wonderful effort and a rare treat. }}{{cite news |author= |title= Formal Opening Night|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46722477/bacon-duo-style/ |work= The Enosburg Standard |location= Enosburg, Vermont |page= 1|date=December 4, 1914 |access-date=March 20, 2020 |quote= An added feature on the opening night will be the appearance of Fred Bacon, America's foremost banjo soloist, assisted by Cassie Bacon, who will present to the music loving public a pleasing and unique program. "Mr. Bacon does the difficult stunt of playing two distinct airs at the same time in addition to making his banjo talk so that his audience can follow lines as closely as though it was a human voice."}}

In 1918 Bacon was advertised for a concert representing the banjo before the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists, alongside musicians such as concert Mandolinists Samuel Siegel (mandolin) and William Foden (guitar). The trio performed together in concerts between 1904 and 1918.

Besides his banjo, Bacon also continued to play his snare drum in concert as late as 1933. He played two solos, Battle Scene and Coming and Going of the Empire Express.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47605397/bacon-arrangements/ The Brattleboro Reformer, Brattleboro, Vermont, 31 Jul 1933, Page 6]

Bacon's performances became an opportunity to sell banjos as he gained name recognition across the country. By 1907 he was having banjos made for him by Vega to sell as his own.{{Cite sign |title=Bacon Professional FF #3 - 1908|type=Plaque beneath museum exhibit |publisher= American Banjo Museum |location= Oklahoma City, OK|quote=The Vega Company, Boston, MA...Marketed by famous classic five-string banjoist Frederick J. Bacon }}{{Cite sign |title=Bacon Professional FF #2 Special "Chubby Dragon" - 1907|type=Plaque beneath museum exhibit |publisher= American Banjo Museum |location= Oklahoma City, OK|quote=The Vega Company, Boston, MA...Marketed by famous banjoist Frederick J. Bacon }} They were sold as far way as Los Angeles and New Jersey.{{cite news |author= |title= Banjos— Frederick J. Bacon|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46722395/fred-j-bacon-professional-models-banjos/ |work= Los Angeles Evening Express |location=Los Angeles |date=March 26, 1914|page= 4|access-date= March 22, 2020 |quote= BANJOS—Fred J Bacon professional models. $40 style now $27.50, $50 style now $37.50, $85 style now $50, $100 style now $60. Other styles including the S. S. Stewart and Orpheum models at the same reduction. Banjo cases strings and all-accessories at practically cost price.}}

While living in Hartford he started the "F. J. Bacon and Company" in 1902, with A. E. Squires and G. S. Masleu, selling musical instrument strings.{{cite web |url= https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/19491247?h=0835a8|title= Hartford, Connecticut, City Directory, 1902 |author= |website=ancestry.com |publisher=[Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. |access-date=March 21, 2020 |quote=Bacon, F. J. Co. musical strings, 53 Tru. F. J. Bacon A. E. Squires G.S. Masleu
Bacon Frederick J. (F. J. B. & Co.) b. 223 Asy.}} Bacon banjo strings and Bacon violin strings, were sold in music stores in 1903.{{cite news |author= |title= John M. Gallup & Co., Music Dealers|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46720853/bacon-banjo-and-violin-strings-bacon/ |work=Hartford Courant |location= Hartford, Connecticut |date= February 18, 1903|access-date= March 20, 2020|quote= John M. Gallup & Co., MUSIC DEALERS, 201 Asylum St., Hartford. $12.00 WILL BUY AN EXCELLENT BANJO INCLUDING SIX LESSONS BY Mr. FRED J. BACON, The finest Banjo Teacher in this country. On Exhibition in our corner window. We are sole agents for the Famous FAIRBANKS BANJOS (endorsed by MR. BACON). Also BACON BANJO and VIOLIN STRINGS.}} At the time, he also endorsed Fairbanks banjos in the music store advertisements. In the Cadenza magazine, 1910, he is picture holding a Fairbanks Whyte Laydie.

Bacon experimented with musical instrument making. While visiting Brandon, Vermont in 1901 he sold his "patent neverslip banjo bridge" to W. H. Johnson of that town.{{cite news |author= |title= Locsl Intelligence|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47092944/bacon-banjo-bridge-company-sells-patent/ |work= The Brandon Union |location= Nrandon, Vermont |date= February 15, 1901 |access-date= March 21, 2020 |quote= Frederick J. Bacon, of banjo fame, was in town this week and negotiated the sale of his patent neverslip banjo bridge to W. H. Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been making the bridges for the Bacon Banjo Bridge Co., for some time and has recently built a machine for manufacturing the bridges. The machine is a very ingenious piece of mechanism in which you place a piece of maple wood and the machine does the rest. The bridges are turned out very rapidly and a superior finished article. The patent is sustained by a device which prevents the bridge from slipping on the banjo head.}} Johnson had been making the bridges for the "Bacon Banjo Bridge Company" and invented machinery to automatically make them. That same year, he took out a patent on a tailpiece that allowed musicians to restring their instruments faster.{{cite patent |country= US|number= 686881|status= patent|title= F. J. Bacon. Tailpiece.|pubdate= |gdate= November 19, 1901|fdate= April 6, 1901|pridate= |inventor= Frederick J. Bacon |invent1= |invent2= |assign1= |assign2= |class= |url=}} In 1905, while still living in Hartford, Bacon applied for a patent for a new type of resonator for open-backed banjos.{{cite patent |country= US|number= 823985|status=patent |title=F. J. Bacon. Banjo. |pubdate= |gdate= June 19, 1906|fdate= August 22, 1905|pridate= |inventor= F. J. Bacon |invent1= |invent2= |assign1= |assign2= |class= |url=}} He was awarded the patent in June 1906, after he sold his Hartford house in April.{{cite news |author= |title= Personal |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47087750/bacon-sells-hartford-property/ |work= Hartford Courant |location= Hartford, Connecticut|date= April 28, 1906|access-date= March 23, 2020|quote=Frederick J. Bacon has sold to Robert G. Henry through, Lester L. Potter the property No. 145 Warrenton avenue.}}

Builders finished working on their house and barn in Forest Dale (part of Brandon), Vermont in 1907.{{cite news |author= |title=Brandon |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47116818/bacons-sued-house-finished-1907/ |work= Burlington Daily News |location=Burlington, Vermont |date=September 3, 1909 |access-date= March 23, 2020 |quote=The civil case of George H Churchill vs Frederick J. Racon and Cassie Bacon is being heard today at the office of E. J. Ormsbee. Mr. Churchill is trying to recover balance due him on a house and barn which he buiit for Mr. Bacon in 1907. Mr. Racon is defending the suit on the ground of unskilled workmanship and mistakes in following plans and specifications. The case is being heard before Referee Judge Charles H. Darling of Burlington.}} He moved into the home with his wife by 1907, calling it Stonehurst.{{cite news |author= |title= Stonehurst|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47237616/frederick-j-bacon-and-cassie-move-into/|work= The Brandon Union|location= Brandon, Vermont |date= September 20, 1907 |access-date= March 23, 2020 |quote=STONEHURST. That's the name of the cottage that Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bacon have been building this summer in Forestdale and which is now practically finished.}}{{cite news |author= |title=Forestdale |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47086553/bacons-home-at-brandon-for2-weeks/|work=The Brandon Union |date=November 22, 1907 |access-date= March 23, 2020 |quote= Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bacon are home for a two weeks' stay. They open Dec. 2d at Lowell on the Keith circuit. Miss Goldie Benjamin, a niece of Mr. Bacon, and Mr. William Perry of Providence, R. I., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bacon at "Stonehurst. }}

In 1908 they bought a second, large place as an investment, that they intended to turn into a hotel. They began touring together as an act about 1910, having two Vermont homes for summer and winter.

Bacon advertised his banjos in the July 1909 issue of Cadenza magazine, as the "Bacon Mfg. and Pub. Co" of Forestdale, Vermont.

Although Bacon was contracting with Vega to make his early banjos, photos in a magazine article show that Bacon had a luthiery set up in Forest Dale, ca. 1910. Bacon may have been selling his banjos from there, also about 1910. By 1913, "the F. J. Bacon Banjo company" or "Bacon Manufacturing Company" was hiring and had a printed catalog of banjos.{{cite news |author= |title= Forestdale |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46944731/f-j-bacon-banjo-company/ |work= Rutland Daily Herald|location= Rutland, Vermont|page= 8|date=April 7, 1913 |access-date= 19 March 2019|quote= Edmund Bushaw has entered to employ of the F. J. Bacon Banjo company as bookkeeper.}}

{{cite book |author= |title=The Bacon Professional Banjo|url= https://acousticmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bacon-1912-Banjo-Catalog.pdf|location= Forest Dale Vermont|publisher= The Bacon Manufacturing Company |date=1913 }} By 1914, Frederick and Cassie Bacon had sold the Forestdale building used for their banjo factory and moved to New London, Connecticut, across the river from their company's future location.{{cite news |author= |title= Forestdale |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40836197/rutland-daily-herald/# |work= Rutland Daily Herald|location= Rutland, Vermont|page= 8|date= November 26, 1914|access-date= 28 March 2020|quote= W. B. Avery has purchased of F. W. Bacon the building formerly used for the Bacon banjo factory, and moved it to his place for a garage.}} They incorporated their company in 1915 as the "Bacon Banjo Company" of Groton, Connecticut.

The demands for the five-string banjo declined in the 1920s, replaced by the tenor banjo. Bacon brought in David L. Day as vice president of the company, and the banjos that were made under Day reached the top of the market. The high-end banjos that the Bacon Banjo Company made during the Jazz Age were highly decorated with gold plating, engraving ebony, ivory. They were made to sparkle in the hands of entertainers on stage. Their top end model cost $1000, when a worker's yearly wager might be $300.

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• American Beauty[https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/scores#composer=&q=Bacon&tuning=0 Public domain music scores at classic-banjo.ning.com]
• The Merry Snowshoers
• c. 1901, Commandery March[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47599057/bacon-arrangements/ Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, 23 Nov 1901, Page 18]
• 1910, Arcadia (polka brilliante){{cite web |url= http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004188869|title= Compositions and Arrangements for Banjo with Piano accompaniment, by F. J. Bacon. [No. 1.] Arcadia. Polka brilliante. [sic] ... [No. 2.] La Serenata. Serenade ... [No. 3.] Little Sunbeam. Waltz ... [No. 4.] Pavilion. Schottische ... [No. 5.] Pit Pat. Schottische ... [No. 6.] Sweethearts. Romanza ... [No. 7.] The Dragon Fly. Dance Characteristic ... [No. 8.] the Enchantress. Valse brilliante ... [No. 9.] The Round Up. Galop di Concert ... [No. 10.] The Trumpeter. March, etc.quote=}}
• 1910, The Dragon Fly (dance characteristic)
• 1910, The Enchantress (valse brilliante)
• c. 1910, Happy Thoughts (schottische)
• 1910, La Serenata (serenade)
• 1910, Little Sunbeam (waltz)
• 1910, Pavilion (schottische)
• 1910, Pit Pat (schottische)
• 1910, Sweethearts (romanza)
• 1910, The Round Up (galop di concert)
• 1910, The Troopers
• 1910, The Trumpeter (march)−

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• 1910, Twilight Reverie{{cite magazine |last= Bacon |first= Fredrick J.|date= February 1910|title= Twilight Reverie|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=32613&itemFileId=184057 |magazine= Crescendo |location= Boston |publisher= Crescendo Publishing Company |volume= 2|issue= 8|pages=14–15|access-date= April 3, 2020}}
• 1911 Dance — Magnetic{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 37–38}}
• 1911, The Fascinator (waltz brilliant){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 48–49}}
• 1911, 1925, March — The Conqueror{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 46–47}}
• 1911, 1921, On the Range (galop){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|pages=58–59 }}{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|page= 44}}
• 1911, The Turkey Gobbler Rag{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|page= 57}}
• 1911, Wildwood Memories{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 45}}
• 1912, West Lawn Polka{{cite web |url= https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-259688/ |title= Medley of Southern airs, My old Kentucky home / Dixie / Old folks at home|author= |website=www.loc.gov |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date=16 March 2020 }}{{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003748/B-11781-West_lawn_polka |title= Victor matrix B-11781. West lawn polka / F. J. Bacon |author= |website=library.ucsb.edu |publisher= Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=21 March 2020 }}
• 1915, Dance Oriental{{cite book |author= |title= Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3|url= https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri101libr/page/462/mode/2up |location= Washington D. C.|publisher= Government Printing Officer|page= 7043|date= 1915}}{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=56 }}
• 1915, The Dawn of Love{{cite book |author= |title= Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3|url= https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri101libr/page/n345/mode/2up|location= Washington D. C.|publisher= Government Printing Officer|page= 5010|date= 1915}}
• 1915, Sleep little one sleep (cradle song){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=45 }}
• 1918, Clear the Way, music for[http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/214 Clear the Way, Lyrics by Henry Erskine Smith, music by Frederick J. Bacon and E. O. Winship. Published by H. E. Smith (Henry Erskine), New York City]
• 1918, Nourmaleen, music forhttps://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1134/ Nourmaleen: A Desert Love Song, Lyrics by Henry Erskine Smith, music by Frederick J. Bacon, New York: H. E. Smith (1918)
• 1918, Peace, The New Dawn, music for[https://archive.org/details/sm_peacethenewdawn/mode/2up Peace: The New Dawn, Lyrics by Henry Erskine Smith, music by Frederick J. Bacon, New York: H. E. Smith Pub Co. (1918)]
• 1919, In Spoonland It's Happy All The Time, music for{{cite book |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/855703868 |title= In spoonland : it's heaven all the time |author= |via= worldcat.org|oclc= 855703868 |access-date=March 31, 2020}}
• 1921, The Canadian Mounted (march){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=51 }}

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• 1921, The Coquette (schottische){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=57 }}
• 1921, Dance of the Fairies{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=38 }}
• 1921, Dance of the Scarecrows{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=27 }}
• 1921, Dancing Sunbeams{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=23 }}
• 1921, The Debutante (schottische caprice){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=49}}
• 1921, Loves Secret{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|pages=28–29}}
• 1921, March of the Marines{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=34}}
• 1921, On the Trail, march{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=20 }}
• 1921, Pretty Brown Eyes{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=30 }}
• 1921, The Princess (polka di concert){{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|pages=62–63 }}
• 1921, Waltz Impromptu{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=35 }}
• 1921, Tarantella{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=48 }}
• 1921, The Winnipeg Rag{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=54 }}
• c. 1922, Crazy Quilt Rag{{cite magazine |last=Spaulding |first= Cliff |title= A Breeze from the West, My Memories of Fred Bacon|url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/index.php?article_id=11&downloadpdf=197106 |magazine= BMG|location=London |publisher= Clifford Essex Music Company Limited|date=June 1971 |access-date=April 3, 2020 }}
• 1922, A Study in Black Rag{{cite news |author= |title= Free Recital by Noted Banjoist |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47606132/bacon-arrangements/ |work= The Evening Journal |location= Wilmington, Delaware|date= August 29, 1922|access-date= March 31, 2020}}

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• 1925, Naval Cadets March
• c. 1926, Silver Bell March{{cite magazine |author= |title= Program of Concerts and Recitals|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action;jsessionid=52C19373581EA0400159188A2D7BFBC9?itemId=33561&itemFileId=183908 |magazine= Crescendo|location=Boston |volume= 18|issue= 9|date=March 1926 |page= 27|access-date= March 31, 2020}}

• c. 1927, Ghost Dance{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005296468 |title=Ghost dance. F. J Bacon Rochester, N.Y.: Don Santos, c1927. |author= |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= April 1, 2020}}
• c. 1927, Spirit Dance, Indian lament{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005296470 |title=The spirit dance : (Indian lament). F. J Bacon Rochester, N.Y. : Dos Santos, c1927. |author= |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= April 1, 2020}}
• c. 1928, Chinese Serenade{{cite book |last= Bacon|first=Frederick J. |title= Bacon melody folio: 5 choice solos|url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/653240756 |location=New York |publisher=Don Santos |oclc=653240756 }}{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005296467 |title= Bacon melody folio : 5 solos for tenor and plectrum banjos with piano accompaniment.|author= |publisher= British Museum|access-date= April 1, 2020|quote=Rochester, N.Y.: Don Santos Pub. Co., c1928}}
• c. 1928, Dancing Moonbeams
• c. 1928, The Dawn of Love (waltz)
• c. 1928, Hopi Indian Snake Dance
• c. 1928, Mia Rita (Mexican Serenade)
• c. 1928, Satan's return{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005296469 |title=Satan's return : plectrum banjo solo. F. J Bacon Rochester, N.Y. : Don Santos, c1928.|author= |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= April 1, 2020}}

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• Moskowski Valse (Moritz Moszkowski)
• Pride of Fifth Avenue (march)
• 1897, Alice, Where Art Thou? (romance){{cite magazine |last= Bacon |first= Frederick J.|date= July 1909|title= Alice, Where Art Thou?|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=32613&itemFileId=184050 |magazine= Crescendo |location= Boston |publisher= Crescendo Publishing Company |volume= 2|issue= 1|page=VIII|access-date= April 3, 2020|quote= Copyright 1897 Graupner and Meyer}} (J. Ascher)
• c. 1901, Kaka Kaka Dance
• c. 1901, Medley, Old Songs
• c. 1901, Medley, Popular Songs
• c. 1902, Medley, Popular Airs[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47598817/bacon-arrangements/ Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, 10 Mar 1902, Page 5]
• c. 1902, Chinese Picnic, (John St. George) descriptive[https://books.google.com/books?id=JAA4AQAAMAAJ&dq=J.+St.+George%2C+chinese+picnic&pg=PA2122 Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Volume 14, Issue 2, page 2122]
• c. 1902, Grand Operatic Potpourri{{cite news |author= |title= Frederick J. Bacon Concert|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47129034/fred-bacon-concert-repertoire-detailed/|work= St. Albans's Daily Messenger|location=St. Albans, Vermont |date= February 24, 1902 |page=7 |access-date=April 3, 2020 }}

:selections from:

::Il Trovatore or To Arms (march)[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6f8e77c0-cf45-0133-30d6-00505686a51c Cadenza magazine, September 1905, p53]

::Carmen

::Poet and Peasant (Suppe)

::William Tell

• c. 1905 The Nightingale and the Frogs[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47598400/bacon-arrangements/ Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont, 15 Jan 1908, Page 1] (Richard Eilenberg)
• c. 1905 Grand Polka de Concert (Homer Newton Bartlett)
• c. 1905 Valse Brilliante or Grand Valse de Concert (Wieniawski op.3)

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• c. 1908, National Airs, grand fantasia{{cite news |author= |title= Concert and Dance, Greatest Banjo Artists in World Coming Here|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47598400/bacon-arrangements/ |work= Bennington Banner |location=Bennington, Vermont |date= January 15, 1908|page= 1|access-date= March 31, 2020 }}
• c. 1908, Grand Valse Brilliante
• c. 1909, Polkadi Concert{{cite magazine |author= |date= October 1909|title= Personal Notes|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=32613&itemFileId=184053

|magazine= Crescendo |location= Boston |publisher= Crescendo Publishing Company |volume= 2|issue= 4|page=12|access-date= April 3, 2020}}

c. 1909, Medley of Familiar Airs

• c. 1909, Say Not Farewell{{cite magazine |author= |date= August 1909|title= Recent Publications: Banjo|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=32613&itemFileId=184051 |magazine= Crescendo |location= Boston |publisher= Crescendo Publishing Company |volume= 2|issue= 2|page=13|access-date= April 3, 2020}}
• 1910, At a Husking Bee, reels and hornpipes{{cite magazine |author= |title= At a Husking Bee|url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action;jsessionid=7F931101E49CDE90FC30DA2A33951D05?itemId=32613&itemFileId=184059|magazine= Crescendo|location= Boston |publisher=Crescendo Publishing, Inc. |date= April 1910 |volume=2 |issue= 10|pages= 13–15|access-date= April 3, 2020 }}

:Irish Washerwoman

:Fisher's Hornpipe

:Old Zip Coon

:The Campbells Are Coming

:Arkansas Traveler

• c. 1910, Familiar Scotch Airs
• 1911, Famous Reels and Hornpipes, banjo{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|page= 55}}

:Liverpool Hornpipe

:Four Hand Reel

:Rickett's Hornpipe

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• 1911, Kinloch of Kinloch (fantasia for banjo), Scottish air, variations{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 50–52}}
• 1911, 1921, Old Black Joe, 2 variations{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|pages= 53–54}}{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|pages=60–62 }}
• 1911, Old Folks at Home (Stephen Foster, Berthold){{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003750/B-11783-Old_folks_at_home |title= Victor matrix B-11783. Old folks at home / F. J. Bacon|author= |website=library.ucsb.edu |publisher= Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=21 March 2020 |quote=Title Note: Victor ledgers note, "with variations by Berthold."}}
• 1911, La Paloma{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company|page= 39}}{{cite news |author= |title=Free recital by noted banjoist |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47606132/bacon-arrangements/|work=The Evening Journal |location= Wilmington, Delaware |page= 10 |date= August 29, 1922|access-date= March 30, 2020}}
• c. 1911, The Round Up
• c. 1911, Selections from Faust (Gounod)[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47604829/bacon-arrangements/ Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 28 Apr 1911, Page 3]
• c. 1911, Selections from Famous Overtures
• c. 1911, Songs of Long Ago, variations
• 1921, Sextet from "Lucia"{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company|page=64 }} (Gaetano Donizetti)
• c. 1933, Sounds from the Cotton Fields

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• 1906, Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music ... Chicago. Banjo Lesson No. 1(-4). Composed and edited by F. J. Bacon. Chicago : Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, 1906.{{cite web |url= http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004188870|title= Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music ... Chicago. Banjo Lesson No. 1(-4). Composed and edited by F. J. Bacon.|author= |publisher=British Library |access-date=March 31, 2020 }}
• 1910, Compositions and Arrangements for Banjo with Piano accompaniment, by F. J. Bacon. Chicago: Siegel-Myers School of Music, (1910).

:includes: Arcadia (polka brilliante); La Serenata (serenade); Little Sunbeam (waltz); Pavilion (schottische); Pit Pat (schottische); Sweethearts (romanza); The Dragon Fly (dance characteristic); the Enchantress (valse brilliante); The Round Up (galop di concert); The Trumpeter (march).

:Alternatively called 10 Original Compositions for Banjo and Piano{{cite book |author= |title= Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, New Series Volume 7 Group 2, Numbers 27-80|url= https://archive.org/details/cataloguecopyri09offigoog/page/n43/mode/2up/search/bacon|location= Washington D. C.|publisher= Government Printing Officer|page= 616|date=July 1910}}

• c. 1928, Bacon melody folio : 5 choice solos{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005296467 |title= Bacon melody folio : 5 solos for tenor and plectrum banjos with piano accompaniment.|author= |publisher= British Museum|access-date= April 1, 2020|quote=Rochester, N.Y.: Don Santos Pub. Co., c1928}}?

: contains Hopi Indian Snake Dance, Chinese Serenade, Dancing Moonbeams, Mia Rita (Mexican Serenade), The Dawn of Love (Waltz).

• 1911, New and revised method for the banjo, Bacon-Goggin Publishing Company, Schenectady, N.Y.{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1911 |title= New And Revised Method For The Banjo |url= https://archive.org/details/NewAndRevisedMethodForTheBanjoFredBacon1911/page/n2/mode/2up |location= Schenactady, New York |publisher= Bacon—Goggin Publishing Company}} This book teaches the banjo in A notation.
• 1915, Lesson (A) in Tremolo{{cite book |author= |title= Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Issues 1-5|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C2RJAQAAMAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CFred+Bacon%E2%80%9D%2C+%E2%80%9Cbanjo%E2%80%9D&pg=PA366|location= Washington D. C.|publisher= Government Printing Officer|page= 5627|date= 1915}}
• 1915, Tremolo Lesson Number 2{{cite book |author= |title= Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Issues 1-5|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C2RJAQAAMAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CFred+Bacon%E2%80%9D%2C&pg=PA418|location= Washington D. C.|publisher= Government Printing Officer|page= 6549|date= 1915}}
• 1921 Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation, William J. Smith Music Company, New York{{cite book |last= Bacon|first= Frederick James|date= 1921 |title= Paramount Method for Banjo in C Notation |url= https://www.classic-banjo.com/files/TUTORBOOKS/Bacon_Paramount_Method.pdf |location= New York |publisher= William J. Smith Music Company}}
• 1924 The Improved paramount Method for the Banjo : in C notation, finger style, William J. Smith Music Company, New York{{cite book |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40254513|title= The improved paramount method for the banjo: in C notation, finger style |author= |via=worldcat.org |oclc= 40254513 |access-date=March 31, 2020 }}

• 1912, March 22 The enchantress, Victor, B-11780, F. J. Bacon, Banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003747/B-11780-The_enchantress |title= Victor matrix B-11780. The enchantress / F. J. Bacon|author= |website=www.library.ucsb.edu |publisher= UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }}
• 1912, March 22 Massa's in de cold, cold ground, Victor, B-11782, F. J. Bacon, Banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003749/B-11782-Massas_in_de_cold_cold_ground |title= Victor matrix B-11782. Massa's in de cold, cold ground / F. J. Bacon|author= |website=library.ucsb.edu |publisher= Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=21 March 2020 }}
• 1912, March 22 Old folks at home, Victor, B-11783, F. J. Bacon, Banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003750/B-11783-Old_folks_at_home |title= Victor matrix B-11783. Old folks at home / F. J. Bacon|author= |website=library.ucsb.edu |publisher= Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=21 March 2020 }}
• 1912, April 15 The troopers march, Victor, B-11877, F. J. Bacon, banjo solo, accompanied by Fred Bachman (piano){{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000003847/B-11877-The_troopers_march. |title= Victor matrix B-11877. The troopers march / F. J. Bacon|author= |website=www.library.ucsb.edu |publisher= UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }}
• 1912 April 15 West lawn polka, Victor, Victor 17129, Matrix/Take: B-11781/4, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, accompanied by Fred Bachman{{cite web |url= https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-259688/ |title= Medley of Southern airs, My old Kentucky home / Dixie / Old folks at home|author= |website=www.loc.gov |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date=16 March 2020 }}

• 1915, December 11 Massa's in de cold, cold ground, Edison Blue Amberol: 2853 / Edison Record: 4330, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder0007 |title= Massa's in de cold, cold ground|author= |website=www.library.ucsb.edu |date= 16 November 2005|publisher= UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }}
• 1916, February 5, Old Black Joe, Edison matrix 4475, Edison 50351, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000151914/4475-Old_black_Joe |title= Fred J. Bacon (composer)|author= |website=library.ucsb.edu |publisher= Discography of American Historical Recordings, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }}
• 1917 Medley of Scotch airs, Edison Blue Amberol: 3109 / Edison Record: 5110, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite book |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903982094|title= Cannaught man ; Medley of Scotch airs |author= |via= worldcat.org|oclc= 903982094 |access-date= March 31, 2020|quote=}}{{cite web |url= http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder13860 |title= Medley of Scotch airs|author= |website=www.library.ucsb.edu |date= 16 November 2005|publisher= UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }}
• 1917Medley of southern airs, Edison Blue Amberol: 3122 /Edison Record: 5109, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, unaccompanied.{{cite web |url= http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder7607 |title= Medley of southern airs|author= |website=www.library.ucsb.edu |date= 16 November 2005|publisher= UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, UC Santa Barbara Library |access-date=16 March 2020 }} Includes My old Kentucky home, Dixie, Old folks at home.{{cite web |url= https://lccn.loc.gov/00694032 |title= Medley of Southern airs, My old Kentucky home / Dixie / Old folks at home|author= |website=lccn.loc.gov |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date=16 March 2020 }}

• 1926 Massa's in the cold, cold ground, Bacon Banjo Company, promotional record, Fred J. Bacon, banjo solo, unaccompanied{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5If2LQrr14 |title=Fred Bacon, Banjo Virtuoso's Only Electrical Recording |last= Morris |first= Randall|website= youtube.com|access-date= 7 April 2019|quote=[YouTube] ...promotional record for the Bacon and Day "Silver Bell" banjo, played by its founder Fred J. Bacon. Recorded circa 1926...}}

File:Bacon Professional FF 2 banjo, 1908, American Banjo Museum.jpg|Bacon Professional FF #2 banjo, 1908, made by Vega. American Banjo Museum

File:Bacon Professional FF 3 Banjo and SS Stewart Piccolo banjo at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|Bacon Professional FF #3 Banjo, made by Vega in 1907 and S.S. Stewart Little Wonder Piccolo banjo, 1897

File:Headstock of Bacon Professional FF 3 Banjo.jpg|Headstock of Bacon Professional FF 3 Banjo, called the "Chubby Dragon"

File:Resonator for Bacon Professional Banjo.jpg|Resonator for Bacon banjos, which he patented in 1906

File:Advertisement, Bacon Neverfalse Gut Strings, Cadenza magazine, August 1905, p53.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon Neverfalse Gut Strings, Cadenza magazine, August 1905, p53

File:Advertisement, Bacon Profession Banjo, Cadenza magazine, September 1905, p53.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, September 1905, p53

File:Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, February 1906, p53.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, February 1906, p53

File:Bacon advertisement, Cadenza, February 1907.jpg|Frederick J. Bacon advertisement, Cadenza, February 1907

File:Advertisement, Bacon Professional Banjos, Cadenza Magazine, March 1907, p. 56.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon Professional Banjos, Cadenza Magazine, March 1907, p. 56

File:Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, June 1907, p6.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, June 1907, p. 6

File:Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, July 1907, p52.jpg|Advertisement, Bacon profession Bacon, Cadenza magazine, July 1907, p52

File:Advertisement, F J Bacon, Cadenza magazine, October 1907, p52.jpg|Advertisement, F J Bacon, Cadenza magazine, October 1907, p52

File:F J Bacon Company Cadenza magazine, November 1907, p. 55.jpg|F J Bacon Company Cadenza magazine, November 1907, p. 55

File:Frederick Bacon, Cassie Bacon, advertisement Dec 1907, selling banjos and strings.jpg|Frederick Bacon, Cassie Bacon, advertisement Dec 1907, selling banjos and strings

File:The Bacon Manufacturing and Publishing Company, advertisement, Cadenza magazine, July 1908.jpg|The Bacon Manufacturing and Publishing Company, advertisement, Cadenza magazine, July 1908

File:The Bacon Manufacturing and Publishing Company, advertisement, Cadenza magazine, July 1909.jpg|The Bacon Manufacturing and Publishing Company, advertisement, Cadenza magazine, July 1909

File:Advertisement Bacon’s Neverfalse Banjo Strings From Crescendo magazine February 1910 p23.jpg|Advertisement Bacon's Neverfalse Banjo Strings From Crescendo magazine February 1910

File:B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931, in a case of Jazz age banjos at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|B&D Sultana Silver Bell #4 tenor banjo, 1931

File:Headstock of B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 1931 at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|Headstock of a B&D Sultana Silver Bell #4

File:Engraved and decorated, B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931, at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|Engraved and decorated, B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo

File:Resonator back on a B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931, at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|Resonator back on a B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931

File:Resonator back closeup on a B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931, at the American Banjo Museum.jpg|Resonator back closeup on a B&D Sultana Silver Bell No 4 banjo, 1931

{{reflist}}

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• [https://www.banjohangout.org/archive/279621/1 List of Bacon's U. S. patents]
• [http://www.mugwumps.com/BaconSerialNumbers.html Page at Mugwumps that considers different eras of Bacon banjos.]
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47129034/fred-bacon-concert-repertoire-detailed/ News clipping detailing songlist at Bacon concert]
• [https://sites.google.com/site/ukulelemakers/b/bacon--day Bacon history from the point of view of ukulele-banjo or banjolele.]
• [http://www.randyspecktacular.com/2012/07/the-edison-files-fred-j-bacon.html?m=1 Page that has photo of Frederick J Bacon with his expensive B&D five string banjo, decorated in the same way as his tenor banjos.]
• [https://sites.google.com/a/uconn.edu/3102katie/life-of-frederick-bacon-1 Page with photo from 1901 of Frederick J Bacon with one of his B&D tenor banjos.]
• [https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06365 The physics PHa Bacon and Day banjo resonating chamber]
• [http://sugarinthegourd.com/BaconProfessionalBanjos/ conversations about B&D banjos]

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