I just read the post regarding the Welte for the Titanic and thought
I would put in my 2 cents worth on what I know.

The Orchestrion that was said to be built for R.M.S. Titanic was a
Welte Philharmonic Style 4 Salon Orchestrion.  It was a roll-played
orchestrion and had approximately 260 pipes and 4 registers, with the
following pipework: Flute, Bourdon, Bassoon, Aeoline, Clarinet, Violin,
Oktav, Principle or Zinn, Sub-bass and Cello.

The case is of mahogany with a lot of carvings and detailed woodwork;
it also had golden display pipes in towers on either end.  The organ
was said to have been ordered in 1910 and was not ready in time, and
was to be picked up upon the return trip.  This organ has a very mellow
sound to it, and listening to it you can just imagine it in the First
Class Salon playing melodies of the period.

At least two of this style were built in 1910 that exist today, and
of course each claim that their organ was the one destined for Titanic.
One orchestrion is in the Schloss Bruchsal Museum in Bruchsal, Germany,
the other has floated the world and is now being restored by the
foremost Welte expert, Durward Center, for a collector on the East
Coast.

It would be great if the museum in Germany would do a CD of The RMS
Titanic Orchestrion, but I don't think this will ever happen.  I also
have wondered if all the historians who have written books about the
Titanic know about "the Organ That Never Was"

For those out there that are interested, I made a CD of a Welte Style 5
and a Style 6 Concert Orchestrion, with Durward Center, that is still
available from me.

Tom Grace

 [ One song played by the Welte Philharmonic at Schloss Bruchsal
 [ appears on Wergo CD SM 1201-2.  It has a lovely sound!  -- Robbie