Burns Double Six vs Gibson Les Paul 12 String
The Burns Double Six and the Gibson Les Paul 12 String are both electric guitars sharing transparent, shimmer. The Gibson Les Paul 12 String leans full 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.54% — moderately similar
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
- shimmer
Burns Double Six
Burns · electric guitar
Gibson Les Paul 12 String
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5250via Reverb
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.
Warren Haynes plays a Gibson Les Paul 12-string, one of only two the company built for him around 1990 after Gibson Custom Shop head Rick Gembar saw him perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and offered to build the instrument. Gibson has since kept a Les Paul 12-string in its catalog partly because of Haynes's association with the model, an unusual pairing since 12-string necks are far more commonly found on acoustic and semi-hollow bodies than on a solid Les Paul. Eric Clapton reportedly saw Haynes play it and remarked he hadn't seen a guitar like it since recording Layla, tying the instrument to the tradition of doubled-string electric guitar work Clapton, Duane Allman, and other blues-rock players from that era helped popularize.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Alternative Rock
- Electronic
- Rock
- Country
- Blues Rock
- full
- sustaining