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- When Is A Burns Bison Not A Burns Bison?...
guitarz.blogspot.com: ...when it's a 1960s Japanese-made Kawai Telestar! These days it seems the only guitars that get copied are the same tired old designs from the likes of Fender or Gibson (and throw Martin into the mix too when considering acoustic...
- Defil Kosmos - A 1980s Polish Take On The Gibson Moderne
guitarz.blogspot.com I've always liked the story behind the Defil Kosmos. As you can see its body copies the mythical Gibson Moderne, a model conceived in 1958 together with the Flying V and the Explorer, but discarded as too radical......
- Ampeg (by Burns Of London) Jazz Splitsound
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another familiar-looking guitar with an unfamiliar logo on it. This 1963 Ampeg guitar is a re-branded Burns of London Jazz Splitsound (although to be perfectly fair, the logo does say "Ampeg by Burns of London"). Ampeg,...
- 11 On 11/11/11: #3 - Baldwin Southpaw Semi-hollowbody Bass
OK, it's the 11th November 2011, that is 11/11/11, and as such today has been designated Nigel Tufnel Day. To celebrate this day of Maximum Elevenness, we here at Guitarz - for this day only - will be posting an unprecedented ELEVEN blog posts! So,...
- Burns/baldwin Virginian From The Late 1960s
guitarz.blogspot.com: We previously looked at a prototype Virginian from Jim Burns' involvement with Hayman guitars at the beginning of the 1970s, but the design predates that era and was previously issued in the late 1960s when Burns London Ltd had...
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1962 Burns of London TR2 bass
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It's always a real pleasure to show a Burns (whatever incarnation) instrument here, for they always have such handsome designs - the real British elegance! Look at this TR2 bass, apparently a really rare model, about which it's impossible to find any information - don't you feel that you need to be dressed in tweeds to play that?
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - 10 years and counting!
- When Is A Burns Bison Not A Burns Bison?...
guitarz.blogspot.com: ...when it's a 1960s Japanese-made Kawai Telestar! These days it seems the only guitars that get copied are the same tired old designs from the likes of Fender or Gibson (and throw Martin into the mix too when considering acoustic...
- Defil Kosmos - A 1980s Polish Take On The Gibson Moderne
guitarz.blogspot.com I've always liked the story behind the Defil Kosmos. As you can see its body copies the mythical Gibson Moderne, a model conceived in 1958 together with the Flying V and the Explorer, but discarded as too radical......
- Ampeg (by Burns Of London) Jazz Splitsound
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another familiar-looking guitar with an unfamiliar logo on it. This 1963 Ampeg guitar is a re-branded Burns of London Jazz Splitsound (although to be perfectly fair, the logo does say "Ampeg by Burns of London"). Ampeg,...
- 11 On 11/11/11: #3 - Baldwin Southpaw Semi-hollowbody Bass
OK, it's the 11th November 2011, that is 11/11/11, and as such today has been designated Nigel Tufnel Day. To celebrate this day of Maximum Elevenness, we here at Guitarz - for this day only - will be posting an unprecedented ELEVEN blog posts! So,...
- Burns/baldwin Virginian From The Late 1960s
guitarz.blogspot.com: We previously looked at a prototype Virginian from Jim Burns' involvement with Hayman guitars at the beginning of the 1970s, but the design predates that era and was previously issued in the late 1960s when Burns London Ltd had...