Conn-Selmer, Inc. is the leading manufacturer and distributor of band and orchestral instruments for
professional, amateur and student use. The Company manufactures and distributes its products under a variety of
well-known brand names, including Vincent Bach brass, Selmer USA woodwinds, C.G. Conn brass, King brass,
Armstrong woodwinds, Ludwig and Musser percussion and Glaesel string instruments. Other brands include
Scherl & Roth and William Lewis & Son string instruments, Emerson flutes, Benge brass and Artley
woodwinds. Under its Leblanc, Inc. division, purchased in 2004, the company also manufactures and
distributes Leblanc, Holton, Noblet, Vito band instruments. Conn-Selmer is also the exclusive North American
distributor for Selmer (Paris) professional brass and woodwinds and U.S. distributor for Yanagisawa saxophones.
It’s no accident that most of the finest band instruments in the world were perfected in the U.S. and continue to be created in America. The histories of each dominant American brand are as unique as the men who started it all. Vincent Bach, Alexander Selmer and George Bundy, Col. C.G. Conn, Georges Leblanc and Vito Pascucci, H.N. White, William Ludwig, Claire Musser, Frank Holton, William Armstrong, The Martin Family, Emerson Deford, and Elden Benge – each has his own story. Today, these famous brands continue to carry their own unique sound, and each has a distinct role to play for music in America and around the world.
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