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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Musical instrument |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Founder | James Ormston Burns and Alice Louise Farrell |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Lee Anderton[1] |
| Products | Electric guitars Bass guitars |
| Website | Burnsguitar.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.
- ^ ""It was never my intention to try and mislead anyone": Lee Anderton responds to Victory Amps ownership questions". Guitar.com. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Baldwin Buys Firm". Billboard. 23 October 1965. p. 6. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ Bacon, Tony (2012). "British Makers: Jim Burns". The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook. MBI. pp. 142–43. ISBN 9781610588423.