The saxophones were made at the factory in Mantes, outside Paris; some were also assembled in Elkhart, Indiana at the headquarters of the company’s American affiliate. Selmer, which started in ...

That enduring preëminence is something of a mystery. Selmer Paris, the manufacturer of the Mark VI, is not alone in making good saxophones, and the Mark VI is hardly the only good horn the ...

donated one of his father’s three principal saxophones—a Mark VI tenor crafted by Henri Selmer Paris, a manufacturer of high-quality brass and woodwind instruments. The saxophone was made in ...

And with all of that came a new saxophone: A Selmer Mark VI tenor, the first of its kind, made in 1965 in Paris. The saxophone didn’t arrive in time for Coltrane’s famous record (and if it had ...