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Welte
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courtesy Gerhard Dangel
In a recent MMDigest someone complained about the few Welte instruments
known today and that there were no lists. I can provide the treasure
hunters with a "partial list of prominent American patrons of Welte-instruments"
and a "partial list of prominent foreign patrons of Welte instruments".
Both are from
The lists of prominent owners are undated, but they must be from 1915 or later because the gold medal of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Franisco, 1915, is reproduced. They seem not to be post-war, but the firm's address is different from another from after 1912 (273 Fifth Avenue). The Howard Gould organ is from the other catalogue, The Welte Philharmonic Organs, Ed: M. Welte & Sons, New York, 273 Fifth Avenue. I wonder where that ship is now? (I hope not torpedoed by a U-Boot!) Maybe one or another instrument or its history will be brought to daylight through these lists. Greetings from Freiburg im Briesgau, home of M. Welte & Söhne Gerhard Dangel
High-resolution images:
24 October 2003 |
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