George Bundy

George Bundy – Instrument manufacturer. While employed by Selmer in New York City, George Bundy took over the company’s U.S. operations in 1918, while Alexandre and Henri Selmer were working in Paris. With the help of flute maker George W. Haynes, Bundy added the Haynes Flutes in 1920 to complement Selmer’s popular clarinet model. In 1927, Bundy moved the company’s manufacturing to Elkhart, Indiana, the “band instrument capital of the world.” Around 1930, Bundy started manufacturing a line of instruments under his own name. In fact, the Bundy saxophone was the most popular student saxophone for about fifty years until being dethroned by Yamaha around 1980. In 1948, Selmer came out with the Bundy Clarinet Resonite Model 1400, which reached the one-million-units sold mark in 1978. In the 1990s, Selmer dropped the Bundy name.