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The First World War interrupted the trade of the Czech instruments, so White sought a domestic supplier in the Cleveland Musical Instrument Company in 1916. Many of the earliest saxophones supplied by Cleveland Musical Instruments were made for military bands as the United States entered World War I. [2] H. N.
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments and was formed in 2003 by combining the Steinway properties, The Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments.
Henri Selmer Paris is a French enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based at Mantes-la-Ville near Paris. Founded in 1885, it is known as a producer of professional-grade woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets. Henri Selmer Paris was family-owned until 2018, when it was sold to Argos-Wityu. [2]
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The company was sold on 1 August 2004 to Steinway Musical Instruments and placed under Steinway's Conn-Selmer subsidiary. Conn-Selmer closed Leblanc's Kenosha facility in 2007 and they moved their French operation to their facility in Elkhart, Indiana. Leblanc's Martin brand of brasswinds was discontinued and production of Holton brasswinds was ...
4 flutes (2 doubling piccolo), 4 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 4 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), 7 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 2 timpanists, percussion, harp, strings The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Exclusive mass-production rights were given to the Selmer company, although only 13,000 were made. [citation needed] Selmer first marketed the instrument in 1959: "Over the past 75 years, many new clarinet key Systems have been submitted to Selmer. Yet the Mazzeo system is the first we have ever placed in production.
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