There are now 175 people working to manufacture 300 instruments a month. The brass family then found itself in the Selmer Paris catalogue. With the integration of this knowledge, expertise and personnel, Selmer became the inheritor and successor to the inventor of the saxophone. In 1929 Henri Selmer purchased the Adolphe Sax workshops, which were also in Montmartre, at 84 rue Myrha. The range of instruments on offer came to include the entirety of the woodwinds, as one can see in the 1928 catalogue. This golden age saw the release of the metal clarinet and a Grand Prix for the Selmer Paris range of instruments at the International Exhibition in Geneva. It is still engraved on each instrument, mouthpiece and reed, guaranteeing the original ‘Henri Selmer Paris’ brand. In 1926 the current Henri Selmer Paris logo appeared, with its crown of laurels. At this time 50 people were working in the factory producing 30 saxophones a month. Never before seen improvements were brought to the manufacturing process, notably concerning tone hole pulling which is a technique still in use today by manufacturers over the world. Naturally Selmer Paris was inspired by this and brought out their very first saxophone in 1922. The technical direction was undertaken by Maurice and Henri Lefèvre, two of Henri Selmer’s sons in law.Īt the time, the saxophone, still a young instrument, would experience an extraordinary popularity in the United States between 19 known as the ‘ saxophone craze’. This expansion would continue and in 1919 the factory in Mantes-la-Ville was inaugurated and Maurice Selmer, Henri’s son, joins the company. In the 1910 catalogue, almost all members of the clarinet family are present and around 20 workers and apprentices make up the manufacturing team. This organisation, which is today Conn-Selmer, distributes the Henri Selmer Paris brand throughout the United States and Canada. In 1905 before returning to France, Alexandre would entrust this boutique to one of his best students, George Bundy. This ever-increasing success continued with the opening of a boutique on 86th street in Manhattan, where Henri’s French-made instruments where sold. The acoustic qualities and the perfect manufacture of his clarinets won him a Gold Medal. In 1898 Henri Selmer began the manufacture of his first clarinets and would go on to participate, only 6 years months later, at the Saint Louis World’s Fair in the United States. Īt this time Alexandre his younger brother, also a clarinettist, left for the United States, where he would join various orchestras including those of Boston and Philadelphia. He would notably perform under the baton of Gustav Mahler as first clarinettist of the New York Philharmonic. He set up in Montmartre, at number 4 Dancourt Place, where a creative environment has long attracted artists from all over the world. It was in 1885 that Henri Selmer founded the enterprise that began manufacturing reeds and mouthpieces. During his career he performed as solo clarinettist with the Lamoureux and Paris Opera orchestras.Īt the same time he developed an already well known savoir-faire for refacing mouthpieces and working on reeds. based on the technique cooperation, which now becomes a processional manufacturer and exporter of all kinds of musical instruments with all series, high productivity, high quality and with good reputation.After graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in 1878 at the age of 22, Henri Selmer joined the orchestra of the Garde Républicaine. together with Conn-Selmer from America and GEWA from Germany set up a subsidiary company - Tianjin RUIWEISITE Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. In 2007, Shengdi Music was appointed as “Top woodwind and brass instruments Manufacturer” Tianjin Shengdi Music Instrument Co., Ltd. ERP system helps us to make our management and product quality perfect. We got ISO9001 Quality Control System in 2007 and developed ERP management system. We have 1200 employees in the corporation, of whom 65 are mid-level and high-level technicians and 15 are musical instrument experts from local and overseas countries. Our registered brands are "Singer‘s Day". Our factory covers an area of 125000 square meters building space is 86000 square meters. is a joint venture manufacturer and exporter of woodwind and brass instruments. Tianjin Shengdi Music Instrument Co., Ltd.