I have an old guitar that says "baldwin" on it. Is that you? No, it's not. Burns guitars was a british company that was bought by Baldwin Piano Company in 1965 after a failed bid to buy Fender. They applied the Baldwin Piano branding to the existing burns models, and two years later bought Gretsch and halted the Burns Models. Fast forward 38 years. Gibson Musical Instrument Corporation buys Baldwin Pianos in 2001 (so punk rock right?) and in 2005 they decide to launch the "Gibson Baldwin Music Education Foundation". Think phillip morris trying to get kids hooked young. Music is way better for you than smoking, but it's still a private equity firm trying to manipulate people for $$. So, they create a whole line of instruments: electric and acoustic guitars and basses, woodwinds, horns, percussion etc. Quality was bottom of the barrel and the project was discontinued almost immediately. So, if you have a guitar that seems like a les paul, or other standard gibson model. It's a student guitar from 2005. If it's super old, it's a burns model. All of our guitars are made in our shop here in Utah after 2012 and we are not affiliated with either burns guitars, Baldwin Piano Company, or gibson musical instrument corporation. Upon writing this Burns Guitars seems to be in operation again with an email-to-order website offering multiple re-issue models.