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Hi,
Our Bass Player owns a '63 Burns-London Jazzbass, which he plays for our
band rehearsals and gigs.
It sounds very different to a Fender Jazz Bass or P-Bass in general.
It's a three pick ups style Bass with a rather unsual PU switch
Going from "Bass" "Contra Bass" "rumble?bass" and a forth option of
which I forgot the name.
It's a light weight bass compared to a Fender and the neck is also very
different. The headstock has a "batwing" which is a cool looking
feature. Neck profile comes close to a C-shape Fender neck.
He bought the bass in a music store a while back when he was looking for
an MIJ Jazzbass, but after hearing the Burns and playing it, he was
immediately hooked to the Burns and it's deep sound. It came with La
Bella flat wounds and he kept it this way.
The Bass was not very expensive (for a vintage instrument that is IMHO
it was 150 Euro more then a the 2nd hand White MIJ jazzbass)
There are a lot of Burns guitars out there from the different Burns
periods. They are as Ivan said not compareable with Fenders, very
different guitars. They did make a model called "The Spitfire" which
looks like a strat and goes for around $ 400 on the 2nd hand market
(depending on the state it is in) They also made "Cheapo guitars"
simelar to the EKO's.
They are back now and have a web site on which their current models are
on. For my taste they are a bit posh looking.
I played a few at local music stores, but I didn't like them that much.
-Jerry S.
