From the origins to 1939

Death of Henri Selmer. Maurice Selmer becomes president of the Selmer company.
Release of Saxophone N° 30 000. The following year, George Selmer, second son of Maurice Selmer, joins the company.

By the end of the war manpower had fallen to 80 people, but from 1946 the production went up to 250 instruments per month. Two years later, Selmer released a new model : the Super Action saxophone.

Marcel Mule officially becomes saxophone tester for Selmer.

Opening of commercial relations with the Monzino company in Italy.

Ulysses Delecluse, Marcel Mule and Raymond Sabarich, all three professors at the National Music Conservatory of Paris, become Selmer testers for respectively, the clarinet, the saxophone and the trumpet.

The Selmer company is present at the fair at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The production rises to 650 instruments per month. Rene Lefèvre, son of Henri Lefèvre, joins the company.

After the purchase in 1949 of the Myrha street building, where the Adolphe Sax workshops were previously, three new floors were built to increase the brass workshop space.

Release of the Soloist embouchure.

In the United States, a new promotional campaign accompanies the release of the Super Action.

Production of the Selmer-Maccaferri guitars is stopped.

Transformation of the company from S.A.R.L. to a Public company. 370 employees manufacture 1000 instruments per month.

Henri Lefèvre is named President.

Release of the "Deville" brand for brass.

The "Bolero" and "Largo" trombone models, developed with Gabriel Masson, are also put on the market the same year. Saxophone n° 100 000 is produced (June 28, 1962).

Exclusive distribution rights obtained in France for "Vincent Bach" (U.S.A.) brass.

Installation of a new head office, rue de la Fontaine au Roi in Paris' 11th district.
Selmer Paris takes over exclusive distribution of "Premier Percussion" instruments in France.

Maurice André begins a long collaboration with Selmer Paris, very quickly going on to become artistic advisor for trumpets, until 1985.
Maurice André died February 25, 2012 at the age of 78.

Reorganization of the workshops at Mantes.

Death of Henri Lefèvre. Georges Selmer is named President.

Republican Guard soloist Michel Nouaux becomes artistic advisor following Marcel Mule.

Release of the trumpet model "Radial 2°".

Presentation of the range.

Contract made for exclusive distribution rights to the Japanese market with the company Nonaka Boeki.

The following year, the factory manager Andre Clergeot retires and Patrick Selmer, son of Jean Selmer, enters the company.

Release of the "Mark VII" saxophone model developed with the assistance of Michel Nouaux, and ending of "Mark VI" production.

Jean-Marie Clergeot, son of André, joins the company.

Acquisition of the Aviac company buildings, extension of the Mantes workshops (+3100 m²).

First computerization of the company (commercial and administrative networks).

Release of the clarinet model “10 S”.

Release of the trumpet “Series 700”.

Bassoon tests restarted with Mr Louchez.
Brigitte Selmer, daughter of George Selmer, enters the company the following year.

from 1980 to today...