Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" vs Burns Double Six
The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" and the Burns Double Six are both electric guitars sharing transparent. The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" leans warm and sustaining.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.49% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy"
Dan Erlewine · electric guitar
Burns Double Six
Burns · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.This brown Flying V, built by luthier Dan Erlewine, is one of several instruments Albert King named Lucy over his career, part of a lineage that began with his original 1959 Korina Flying V and continued through custom copies from different builders including Erlewine, John Bolin and Tom Holmes as King wore through or retired earlier examples. Erlewine was among the first luthiers King commissioned for a replacement once his original Korina V became too valuable and fragile for regular touring use. It is associated in this catalogue with both Albert King and Joe Bonamassa, the latter a well-documented collector of King-associated Flying Vs.
The Burns Double Six is a 12-string electric guitar first introduced in 1963 by the British maker Burns of London, fitted with the same Tri-Sonic pickups used in Brian Mays homemade Red Special. Brian May of Queen bought a Double Six specifically for those pickups and ended up writing the song Long Away, from A Day at the Races, around the guitar itself after the instrument inspired its riff. The same model was also played by Elvis Presley in the film Spin Out and by Hank Marvin of The Shadows.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- Alternative Rock
- Electronic
- Rock
- Country
- warm
- sustaining