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The Frick Art & Historical Center, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is
releasing a new CD of the M. Welte & Soehne Style 6 orchestrion that
is the focal point of the Frick mansion's enclosed porch.  This
orchestrion is one of only four Style No. 6 instruments still in
existence.

The Frick Welte Style No. 6 concert orchestrion was purchased in 1892
at the recommendation of Mr. Frick's business partner, Andrew Carnegie.
This oak-cased instrument replicates nine instruments from an
orchestra: bass drum, snare drum, organ pipe, a brass section of
trumpets and trombones, flutes, piccolos, triangle, and cymbal.

The Frick model originally worked by clock mechanism weights, but
in 1904 Mr. Frick had it electrified.  The restoration of this
orchestrion was performed by Durward R. Center at his shop in Baltimore
during 1990-1991.

The CD is scheduled to be available 1 October 2001.  To order the
CD telephone the Museum Shop at 412-371-0600 x543, or email me at
<jmiller@frickart.org>.  The price is $18.00 per CD and shipping &
handling is $5.95.  There is no sales tax to residents outside
Pennsylvania.

Jodee Miller, Museum Shop Manager
Frick Art & Historical Center
http://www.frickart.org/