Beltona Resonator Instruments

Beltona Resonator Instruments is a UK musical instruments manufacturing company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Since its foundation, Beltona has been producing resonator instruments, more specifically guitars, mandolins and ukuleles.

Beltona Resonator Instruments
TypePrivate
IndustryMusical instruments
Founded1990 (1990)
FounderSteve Evans and Bill Johnson
Headquarters
United Kingdom
ProductsResonator guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles
Websitebeltona.net

History

The company started as a partnership between luthier Steve Evans and engineer Bill Johnson, who shared an interest in resonator instruments. In the mid-1990s and with the purpose of cutting down production costs, the company started to use materials such as carbon and glass fibre in the production of instruments.

These materials had several advantages over metal including weight, strength and speed of production. Beltona's success led the company to concentrate only on instruments made of resin since 2002. By those times, Evans became the sole owner of the business. After some years in New Zealand, the company returned to England in 2013.[1]

Musicians

References
  1. Company profile on Beltona website
  2. Rick Batey The American Blues Guitar: an illustrated history Hal Leonard. 2005.


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