According to the description on the National Carousel Association's
website of the Dentzel carousel at Centreville in Toronto, it says
the music is provided by a Welte Model II-B band organ that's been
converted to play style 165 rolls.  This was the very first time it
occurred to me that the Welte company had been producing band organs.

I have heard of both reproducing player pianos and orchestrions that
were made by Welte but never a single band organ.  It's still unknown
to this day where other band organs produced by Welte are located today
or where they have played before natural causes of their original
locations such as severe weather disasters, auctions, and fires etc.

Unfortunately the only Welte band organ (the Centreville carousel's
band organ) is not operational which proves a big shame to many
visitors of the park.  Fortunately, if the carousel stays in Toronto
(more importantly, in Centreville), hopefully the band organ one day
might be in the meticulous hands of a restorer, if funds to restore it
are eventually raised through time.  A picture of the organ is here:

  http://carousels.org/psp/Centreville/P6124156.html 

Andrew Lardieri
Voorhees, New Jersey

 [ The "Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments," by Q. David
 [ Bowers, page 927, tells about Welte's brief venture with band organs:
 [
 [ "About 1907 M. Welte & Sons of New York City issued a catalogue
 [ featuring Welte "Concert Orchestra Organs."  Surviving instruments
 [ indicate that these were actually made by Bruder and by Ruth, [both]
 [ of Waldkirch, Germany (which is located less than 10 miles from
 [ Welte's main factory site in Freiburg).  Evidently Welte adapted
 [ its own paper roll system to these organs.  Paper rolls bearing the
 [ Welte name were sold, and were possibly made, by Welte.
 [
 [ "Welte's involvement in the field of band organs was short-lived.
 [ Very few organs were ever sold under the Welte name and a few years
 [ later the band organs were dropped from the extensive Welte line of
 [ automatic instruments."
 [
 [ -- Robbie