Branch died in 1987 and his legacy — his lilting Henri Selmer Paris sax — seemed to pass on with him. Vivian Branch brought the woodwind with her when she moved back to Memphis after her ...

European buyout firm Argos Soditic said it is in exclusive talks to buy a majority stake in Henri Selmer Paris, a French manufacturer of saxophones and clarinets that has been family-owned since ...

The prices of Selmer's saxophones range from 2,700 to 20,000 euros, with an average of 4,500 euros. Coltrane played a Selmer Mark VI tenor on his classic "A Love Supreme" album.

“Play it real pretty." Branch believes the Henri Selmer Paris saxophone the museum now owns is the one her husband had with him in 1968, though a serial number recently spotted on the back ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The legendary saxophone maker Henri Selmer Paris said on Wednesday it would sell a majority stake to an investment fund, ending more than 130 years of family control over the firm.

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 ...

APPRAISER: What you have is a Selmer saxophone. Selmer has been ... And that indicates that it was made and engraved in Paris and sold in Europe. APPRAISER: They made very poor cases for their ...

She hoists the horn into her lap, eight pounds of aging brass and tender memories. “This is his saxophone," says Vivian Branch, 81. “This is the one that he had when he was going to play for ...

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 ...

European buyout firm Argos Soditic said it is in exclusive talks to buy a majority stake in Henri Selmer Paris, a French manufacturer of saxophones and clarinets that has been family-owned since it ...