San Francisco, CA January 1, 2011 BURNS SONIC GUITAR LINE DEBUTS IN USA! The legendary Burns guitar line is proud to introduce its new Sonic Limited Edition model electric guitar to the USA Market! The new Sonic is a rock n roller s dream guitar, with its slim, fast, and highly flamed Canadian maple neck and Indian rosewood fingerboard. The neck also incorporates the Burns Gear-o-Matik truss rod to ensure perfect neck alignment at all times. The comfortable alder body is stylishly contoured, and along with the two high output Burns Tri-Sonic pickups contolled by one volume, one tone control and a 3-way pickup selector switch, an infinite number of sounds and tonal effects can be found. The bridge is the famous Burns Rez-o-Tube style. Burns started to manufacture guitars in England in early 1960 s. Saga Musical Instruments is proud to be the exclusive USA distributor of Burns electric guitars and basses, and we can only imagine the thrill of the youngest generation of guitar players who will be seeing these fabulous instruments for the first time in their favorite retail stores! We feel that there will soon be a new legion of younger Burns fanatics to go along with the older musicians who still remember Hank Marvin and the Shadows! Burns guitars have been played not only by Hank Marvin, but by Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, Steve Howe, Jimmy Page and many, many more of everybody s Rock Heroes! Burns Sonic - Limited Edition
San Francisco, CA January 1, 2011 BURNS DREAM GUITAR LINE INTRODUCED IN USA! Saga Musical Instruments, the exclusive USA distributor of the legendary line of Burns electric guitars and basses, is proud to announce the new Dream Guitar Limited Edition! This superb, top-line model is the culmination of 50 years of Burns expertise and innovation, and each guitar will come with a hand-signed and numbered certificate of authenticity! As befits our flagship model, all metal parts are heavily gold-plated including the Burns locking machine heads. The body is of Alder, with a figured maple top and the neck is figured maple with pearloid binding. The distinctive Burns multiple pick-guards are black over white laminated plastic and there are 2 tone controls, I volume control and a five-way switch. Three Burns Rez-O-Matik Noiseless pickups are mounted in the body and the legendary Burns Rez-O-Tube Tremolo is gold-plated with the Dream guitar logo. Locking strap nuts are provided as well a custom leather strap. This stunning limited edition is available in Red Burst or Transparent Red. Each guitar is supplied with its own silver alligator-finish oblong, plush padded hardshell case as well as a leather tool kit, Burns duster and a warranty card. We invite you to see and try this Dream Guitar Limited Edition as well as all the other fine guitars and basses in our catalog. Saga Musical Instruments welcomes the distinguished line of Burns electric guitars and basses back into the USA market! Burns Dream
San Francisco, CA January 1, 2011 BLUERIDGE PREWAR GUITARS UPGRADED WITH ADIRONDACK TOPS! The Blueridge Prewar Series our Flagship line of acoustic guitars has just been made even better by the addition of an Adirondack spruce top on every model! Guitar Historians, Collectors and Players all know that the secret to that elusive Prewar sound on the finest vintage collectibles is the type of spruce used on the majority of those instruments. The rare and costly Adirondack spruce has been unavailable for 50 years until the finest, high-end boutique makers began to seek out supplies of this legendary wood. You can now buy an Adirondack top guitar from almost any private luthier and you ll probably pay at least $4000 for the privilege on the plainest mahogany guitar they make! The Blueridge Prewar Series combines the choicest, most select solid mahogany or rosewood with the finest Adirondack spruce and carefully braces these tops in the best Prewar fashion. The result is new guitars that look and SOUND like the best old ones! Our finest models have abalone pearl inlaid on every border, and yet the price for these guitars is but a fraction of what many private luthiers or even factories would charge for the almost identical article. Blueridge offers this fabulous Adirondack spruce on several models within the line of all-solid guitars making that Prewar sound available to the amateur and the working musician for a fraction of the price of the average boutique guitar! You might say that Blueridge has almost single-handedly made Adirondack available to the entire guitarbuying public not just the wealthy collectors and a new guitar with that elusive Prewar sound is now available to just about everyone thanks to Blueridge! BR-280A
San Francisco, CA January 1, 2011 BLUEGRASS LEGEND S CUSTOM GUITAR STRAPS NOW OFFERED BY GOLDEN GATE! The fabulous Golden Gate line of quality leather guitar straps is proud to announce the debut of the world-famous Shelton guitar strap! Known as one of the premier guitar players in the field of Bluegrass Music, James Allan Shelton is equally well known for his elegant, hand-tooled leather straps that are used by top pros such as J. D. Crowe and Don Rigsby to name just a few. As Shelton s reputation as an artist in leather craft has grown, the demand has become far too great for him to fill by himself, so he has enlisted the artisans at Golden Gate to duplicate his celebrated straps in quantities sufficient for the world market. These straps, of the finest Norwegian saddle leather and hand-tooled in James signature basket-weave pattern, are available in the colors of Classic Ebony, Warm Mahogany and Rich Walnut. We at Golden Gate feel that these new straps are the finest you can buy. They offer hand-made leather artistry at the modest price of a mass-produced article. Examine one today and see for yourself the style, quality and distinction of the new Shelton Strap from Golden Gate! Golden Gate SG-5312 & James Allen Shelton with Ralph Stanley
San Francisco, CA January 1, 2011 NEW CREMONA ELECTRIC VIOLIN PRO QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE! The new Cremona SVE-100 is a thoroughly professional instrument that ant serous violinist can afford! Years of development have produced a lightweight, ergonomically-designed electric violin that feels light and perfectly balanced on your shoulder. With its sophisticated Skyinbow electronics, the new SVE-100 gives professional performance and a lovely, natural violin tone that you can amplify as loud as you wish! There is a 9 volt battery concealed in the body, and the output jack is cleverly mounted to allow the cord to pass over the shoulder for the greatest comfort and convenience. With all trimmings of the finest ebony, and a beautiful Black gloss finish, the SVE-100 looks and sounds the part for the modern electric violin artist! Cremona SVE-100 Electric Violin