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Article: Pawnshop Prize: Burns Flyte.(London-based guitar company makes a comeback)(Brief Article)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Once the largest guitar maker in Britain, the Jim Burns company etched its name in history with eclectic electrics such as the Bison, Marvin, Sonic, and Vibraslim. Purchased in 1965 by America's Baldwin (who had failed in its attempt to buy Fender), Burns soon vanished from the market. The company reappeared in 1974 with a series of oddly shaped guitars that would eventually include the Flyte model. By 1977, Burns was gone again. (Since 1992, Burns London has been manufacturing reproductions of '60s-era Burns guitars.)
Jim Burns had led the pack with innovations such as stacked-coil pickups and knife-edge trems, and the Flyte seems designed to woo the astronaut ...