Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

There are three Selmers to track: Selmer Paris¹, Selmer London and Selmer USA (at first H. & A. Selmer, then Bundy ²)

Henri Selmer and Alexandre founded Selmer and H&A Selmer. They took over the workshop of Adolphe Sax in 1928. and started making brass instruments at that time, first under the Sax name until 1933, then under the Millereau name until 1939, before using the Selmer name.

While Henri was working away in Paris, Alexandre was in the US playing clarinet and building a business. Alexandre went back to France in 1918, but in 1920 the US company bought out G.W. Haynes.

In 1927, H&A Selmer under George Bundy and Carl Greenleaf (proprietor of Conn) moved to Elkhart Ind. and began manufacturing brass instruments using a variety of trade names including Selmer USA, Bundy, Free-Tone, Marcil, Raymond, Signet, Lincoln and Manhattan.

Selmer is actually three Selmer companies. They were very closely related early but after a while, the American and the English Selmer companies distanced from their French origin.

Selmer London marketed their own trumpets too and those they did not build by themselves but bought them from other companies and sold under their own name. Melody Maker, Manhatten, and Lincoln are tradenames they used. Some were Huttl made.

Instruments sold under the Selmer London label had no connection to Selmer Paris. But, Selmer London, of course, was the UK dealer for Selmer Paris.

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