Indeed, the Welte Style 10 must have been a grand orchestral organ,
and the music something very special, providing that Welte took special
care to use the available ranks to the maximum advantage in arranging
the music.

Considering that the pipework, viewed on the few pictures of these
mammoth instruments, does not look all that different than the smaller
versions, it might be possible to reproduce such an organ today.
Actually, as pipe organs go, the Style 10 is not really a huge
instrument, as far as the number of ranks employed.  Then, consider
that they are mostly short compass ranks.  But, one would have to know
accurately just what these ranks were, and that data, except for
Durward Center's article, is most scarce and his story is all we have
to go on.

Taking good high resolution samples of the sounds of the ranks from
existing Welte Orchestrions, then using them in a custom digital organ,
one could reproduce the original sound.  If this was not possible to
accomplish, then knowing the scale, wind pressure, and exactly what
the ranks really are, substitutes from Kimball, Wurlitzer, Skinner,
and other organs, might provide a reasonable facsimile of the Welte.
It may be reasonable to assume that the ranks in the Style 10 Welte are
not all that different, if at all, than those in the smaller versions,
only more pipes for each division and that counter melody section added.

However, if the source of Style 10 rolls is now only to be found in the
Salomon estate, then the problem would be gaining access to them to
scan.  Unless the Patti rolls still exist somehow, there does not seem
to be any other source of Style 10 rolls.  So, this idea of recreating
the Welte Style 10 is just a nice idea and not one that can be
realized.

Jim Crank