RETROSPECT PRESS

The manufacture of musical instruments in the Michiana area has been a major industry for nearly 125 years. Today two local companies, United Musical Instruments and the Selmer Company, still make many of the famous brand names of the past, and rank in the top three manufacturers in the USA. Still manufactured in Michiana today are clarinets, piccolos, flutes, saxophones, french horns, sousaphones, grand and upright pianos, trumpets, oboes, bassoons, cornets, and Fluegelhorns.