Many saxophone manufacturers are still around, even surviving the boom and bust of the saxophone craze of the 1920s as well as the assimilation of many manufacturers during the 1970s and 1980s. This list is by no means complete, but it will give the general overview of the largest and most memorable saxophone manufacturers as well as some information on their innovations and history.

Selmer
No saxophone story would be complete without them!
Selmer USA website
Selmer Paris website

Buescher
Still considered, by some, to be the best saxophones ever made.
Selmer USA website (bought by Selmer)

Buffet
Right next door to Selmer and right up there in quality.
Buffet-Crampon website

Conn
The American innovator.
C.G. Conn website

Keilwerth
Best of the old and the new.
Julius Keilwerth website

King
Can you say "Super 20"?
King Winds website

Martin
G. Leblanc/Martin USA website

SML
Strasser-Marigaux Lemaire website

Yamaha
The Customs took the world by storm.
Yamaha Saxophones website

Yanagisawa
One of the best of the modern horns.
Yanagisawa Japan website
G. LeBlanc/Vito/Yanagisawa USA website

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