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Author: Ryder
Date: 2008-06-08 20:23
Here's one for the history buffs...
I don't understand. Who owns who? I've seen the B&H name all over the place, they publish music, make clarinets. What is their relationship with Buffet? Are they even related?
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-06-08 21:54
Besson was acquired by Boosey & Hawkes in 1948.
Buffet was acquired by Boosey & Hawkes in 1981.
In 2003 B&H's musical instruments division, including Buffet and Besson, was sold to The Music Group.
In 2005 Buffet was sold to a French group.
In 2006 Buffet bought Besson.
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2008-06-08 21:58
And now B&H exists only as a music publishing name - the music instrument side of the business is Kaput!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-06-08 22:15
The pro level B&H Imperial and more recent Besson Sovreign/Prestige range of brass instruments (mostly brass band instruments including cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums and tubas) are now being made in the UK by former B&H workers under the company name of LMI (London Musical Instruments).
The last woodwind instruments actually made at the B&H factory in North London (off Edgware Road) were Buffet flutes (the 'Cooper Scale' models, which were pretty much like the late B&H Emperor ones), until production switched to Schreiber in Germany around 1998 not long after a new range of flutes was being made in the UK.
Peter Eaton makes the nearest thing to the B&H Imperial 926 and Symphony 1010 clarinets.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-06-09 01:36
It might not be long before Exxon or Shell oil owns all the instrument companies. ESP, www.peabody.jhu.edu/457, (listen to a little Mozart)
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