Category:Welte orchestrions

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References

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  • Orchestrions. Seewen SO: Museum für Musikautomaten.
    "​ Orchestrions were occasionally made by musical clock and organ workshops as early as the end of the 18th century. / Between 1845 and 1848 Welte's workshop in Vörenbach built an instrument for an unnamed purchaser in Odessa: ... ",
    "​ An orchestrion featuring 39 pin rollers, 15 registers and 524 pipes, which took 33 months to complete, won a medal at the World Exhibition in London in 1862. ... / Between the 1860s and 1880s the Welte Company produced a total of ten different types of large pin-roller based orchestrion. ",
    "​ In 1883 Emil Welte filed a patent in the USA covering the control of orchestrions by means of perforated strips of paper - the music roll - then other patents in 1889/1890 covering a refined process based on air supplied under pressure as well as under suction. The period between 1890 and the First World War found the Welte Company offering an extensive array of orchestrions. ... ",
    "​ Orchestrion is a term that broadly describes 'self-playing orchestra'-type instruments, where the music is 'pre-programmed' using one or more pin rollers or a perforated music roll. "
    See also : Story of the Welte Company./ The world of the piano./ The Welte-Philharmonie organs.

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