Holton company history

Frank Holton & Co.

Frank Holton & Co. (Holton) is an American brass instrument maker founded by trombonist Frank Holton in Chicago in 1898 and based in Elkhorn, Wisconsin from 1918. One of the world's largest makers of French horns, it developed its Farkas horn line in the late 1950s in partnership with Chicago Symphony principal horn Philip Farkas. Holton is now a brand of Conn-Selmer.