Leif Juhl

Leif Juhl has had quite a life in music! As a boy, he picked up a trumpet – the instrument he still played in his early 90s when his oral history interview was completed at his Arizona home. Leif was the ad man for Selmer before forming the Juhl Ad Agency in Elkhart, Indiana. Over the years, he worked for many instrument companies and even helped design some accessories such as a special trumpet case with a hidden compartment. His first NAMM Oral History interview was completed on May 4, 2003. In recent years Leif has been a strong supporter of the Museum of Making Music. In 2008 he donated his rare Selmer cornet to the museum that was made with an “S” in the tubing, which was his design idea back in the 1930s.