Old Burns Catalogue Pages

[David Martin]

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[des mcneill]

What do you mean "old" ?? from my perspertive this is decidedly modern. I go back to and still own Burns from 1960-62 !!
Des.

[cockroach]

Thanks David, very interesting!

They were certainly not particularly cheap back then, and compared to other similar good or reasonable standard gear around at that time- Fenders, Hofners etc- they were certainly up in those price ranges. A Bison was priced well into Fender territory and the cheaper models were somewhat above the prices of say, the better quality Hofner solids (V3, Galaxy etc)

Interesting that the 6 string bass had a regular guitar scale length (in this case 24 3/4 inches like a Gibson, and not even the standard typical Fender scale of 25 1/2 inches) let alone the 30 inch Fender Bass VI scale length...I suspect a few chaps back then who joined bands (sorry! groups!) but were relegated to play bass because of a surfeit of guitarists, might have bought a set of Burns 6 string bass strings and forced them to fit their regular electric guitars to get by..?

[ErikMAMS]

Hi David

Any chance your catalogue(s) includes the Nu-Sonic?

[David Martin]

Sorry that's all I have...