Burns London

Burns London
Company typePrivate
IndustryMusical instrument
Founded1959; 65 years ago (1959)
FounderJames Ormston Burns and Alice Louise Farrell
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Lee Anderton[1]
ProductsElectric guitars
Bass guitars
WebsiteBurnsguitar.com

Burns Guitars London is an English manufacturer of electric guitars and bass guitars, founded by Alice Louise Farrell (1908–1993) and James Ormston (Jim) Burns (1925–1998) in 1959.

Ormston Burns Ltd. was bought up by Baldwin Piano Company in 1965, and the company was renamed "Baldwin-Burns".[2] Burns guitars were reintroduced in 1991[3] under the name "Burns London", and the product line now includes a collector's edition of the first model the company produced.

  1. ^ ""It was never my intention to try and mislead anyone": Lee Anderton responds to Victory Amps ownership questions". Guitar.com. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Baldwin Buys Firm". Billboard. 23 October 1965. p. 6. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. ^ Bacon, Tony (2012). "British Makers: Jim Burns". The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook. MBI. pp. 142–43. ISBN 9781610588423.