Hayman Guitar 2020

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Vintage 1973 Hayman 2020 semi-hollow body guitar. Made in England. INFORMATION ABOUT HAYMAN GUITARS: "In 1969, Jim Burns joined forces with former Vox employee Bob Pearson to develop a new line of HAYMAN guitars for Dallas Arbiter. Jim had already formulated several ideas for a new design, as had Bob Pearson, who was also working on a perspex-bodied guitar with Beatle John Lennon. The resulting combination of Jim's and Bob's ideas produced a range of instruments featuring various innovative features and a distinctive appearance. The guitar's style—suggestive of a Burns 'Vista Sonic' crossed with a Fender 'Telecaster'—remained distinctly 'British'. The designs incorporated many features from earlier Burns models, thus retaining a defined 'familial resemblance'; cabinetmaking was by Jack Golder, with lattice design by Norman Houlder. Re-An supplied the hardware, while finishing was handled by Derek Adams—all links to earlier Burns and Baldwin instruments. The Hayman range can certainly be classified as 'Burns by another name'. All models were worthy successors to earlier Burns instruments, albeit lacking some of the 'flair' and 'character' of their predecessor." Published in "The Burns Book" by Paul Day, 1979: