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Re: ?????Boosey & Hawkes, Buffet, Besson????

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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