Steinway Musical Instruments

Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. (stock code on the NYSE: LVB) is a holding company of musical instrument manufacturers.

As a result of acquisitions and corporate mergers, the company acquired a variety of musical instruments brands and production facilities. Its members are now pavers of wings, pianos, wind instruments, string instruments and percussion instruments.

The company sells its products through a worldwide network of dealers to professional musicians and institutions, amateurs, students, and also to orchestras and educational institutions. This is among dozens of brand names such as Steinway & Sons pianos, Bach Stradivarius trumpets, CG Conn horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, Ludwig snare drums and Selmer Paris saxophones.

It employs a workforce of approximately 1,700 employees and operates 11 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Europe.

History

• May 1995: Selmer Industries buys Steinway Musical Properties, parent company of the piano maker Steinway & Sons.
• July 1996: Selmer Industries is renamed Steinway Musical Instruments.
• August 1996: Steinway Musical Instruments introduces an IPO by.
• January 1997: Purchase of Emerson, a manufacturer of flutes.
• December 1998 purchase of Kluge keyboards, German manufacturer of keyboards in Remscheid.
• March 1999: acquisition of the Steinway Hall in New York City, prominent piano sales area with a concert hall.
• November 1999: Purchase of The O.S. Kelly Company, manufacturer of piano frame castings.
• January 2000: Purchase of Pianohaus Karl Lang, Munich, dealers, inter alia, by Steinway.
• September 2000 purchase of United Musical Instruments, manufacturer of brass instruments.
• January 2003: Merger of Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments in a unit under the name of Conn - Selmer.
• August 2004: Purchase of G. Leblanc, manufacturer of brass instruments.
• May 2008: Purchase of ArkivMusic, online sales of classical music.

Products

The company produces instruments under the following brand names:

• Pianos: Steinway & Sons - upright and grand pianos for the upper market segment
• Boston - upright and grand pianos for the middle market
• Essex - upright and grand pianos for the entry-level market segment

• Brass Instruments: Benge - Trumpets, Piccolo Trumpets, Pocket Trumpets
• C. G. Conn - horns, tubas, single and double horns, Flugelhörner, sousaphone, saxophone
• Holton - cornets, horns, trombones, trumpets
• King - trombones, baritones, euphoniums, cornets, horns, wings, horns, Mellophone, trumpets, tubas, sousaphone, saxophone
• Martin - trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, trombone, saxophone
• Prelude - trumpets, marching trumpets, marching baritones, Marscheuphonien, marching Mellophone, Marschtubas, piccolos, flutes, clarinets, saxophones
• Vincent Bach - Trumpets, cornets, flugelhorn, trombone

• Woodwinds: Armstrong - Flutes, Piccolos
• Artley - clarinets
• Avanti - flutes
• Emerson - Flutes, Piccolos
• Galway Spirit Flutes - Flutes
• Henri Selmer Paris - saxophones, clarinets (only distribution )
• Leblanc - clarinets
• Noblet - clarinets
• Selmer USA - saxophones, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons
• Vito - clarinets
• Yanagisawa - Saxophone

• String Instruments: Glaesel - violins, violas, cellos, double basses
• Scherl & Roth - violins, violas, cellos, double basses
• Wm Lewis & Son - violins, violas, cellos, double basses

• Percussion and drums: Ludwig- Musser

• Other: ArkivMusic - Classical Music Recordings
• Lists Magazines - Magazines about Classical Music
• Steinway & Sons label - music label

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