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Generally this was the one with the carved scroll on the head stock.

Baldwin removed the section of pick guard that said Burns and replaced it with a different one that announced it to be a Baldwin guitar.Д«aldwin later swapped necks or used a similar one on all models. This was helpful, because initially there was a large quantity of unsold Burns stock that was shipped to the United States. The easiest way to change a Burns to a Baldwin was to remove the pick guard that said Burns of London. They then set their sites on Burns of London and purchased the company and all of its assets for just under ВЈ 400,000. The company made an offer to buy the Fender Guitar Company, but was outbid by CBS. It was around this time, 1966, that Cincinnati, Ohio based Baldwin Piano Company was also experiencing a slump in piano and organ sales due to the popularity of the guitar. Burns sales plummeted and Jim Burns was very short of capital. Popular British bands were using American made guitars. You would think the British Invasion would have brought bountiful sales for Burns, however quite the opposite happened. So you may run across a Burns of London guitar with the name Ampeg on its pickguard. Originally Burns had signed an agreement with Ampeg to distribute their instruments in the United State. These may have been vaguely based on a Gibson SG, but all had unique shapes.

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Jim Burns also created the Sonic series which included the Sonic, Split Sonic, Sonic Vista and Nu Sonic.

These characteristic guitars featured a symmetrical body with two long horns that mimicked the appearance of a bison skull. Both guitars came with two pickups.Д«urns also offered six versions of the Bison series. These guitars featured what Burns called the rolling tremolo. BurnвЂ™s followed suit by producing the Vibra Artist and Vibra Artist Deluxe. Cliff Richard introduced the first Fender Stratocaster to the UK and Europe. With the onset of Skiffle music and rock nвЂ™ roll in the UK the guitar was become a very popular instrument. The original Fenton Guitar looked somewhat like a Guyatone of the same period. Burns introduced the Ike Issacs model in 1958 and shortly afterward introduced the Single Cutaway Bass for the company.Д«y 1959 Burns was building guitars under his own name, although he did so in collaboration with a fellow named Henry Weill. Their company needed someone to build guitars, so they contracted with Jim Burns. This was a company founded by a couple with the surname Wooten that specialized in public address and guitar amplifiers from 1952 to 1974. The Ike Issacs model was distrubted by the Supersound Company. Within a few years he was playing with Stephan Grappelli, Barney Kessel and other well known artists. It was there he immersed himself in guitar playing and he really soaked it up. Issacs was born in Burma and came to London as a student in the mid 1940вЂ™s. The first commercially produced Burn manufactured guitar was the Ike Issacs short scale model. But Burns guitars and other European made instruments were readily available and affordable. Guitars imported from the United States had a very expensive import tariff, and were out of the financial reach of many Britons. As I have mentioned before, in the 1950вЂ™s through the 1960вЂ™s Britain was paying off a huge war debt.

Burns Guitars were enormously well received in Britain before the British invaded the USA.