Freiburg, Germany & Poughkeepsie, New York
Welte-Mignon recording piano with Edwin Welte
(left), pianist Eugene d'Albert and
Karl Bockisch, probably at the Popper & Company
studio in Leipzig, 1905.
Welte-Mignon Vorsetser playing Steinway grand
piano no. 261, at the recording sessions
of 1962 and 1963. (Illustration from "Legendary
Masters of the Piano" album booklet.)
Historical LPs produced or recorded by Richard Simonton, Los Angeles CA, 1948-1966
"Great Masters of the Keyboard",
Columbia LP Records, 1950 --
images courtesy Gerhard Dangel,
Augustinermuseum, Freiburg
"Legendary Masters of the Piano", Book-of-the-Month Club LP album, 1963
"Welte Legacy of Piano Treasures",
LP album (sold by Reader's Digest?, ca. 1966) and LP containing performances
by Alexander Scriabin
by Richard Simonton, Jr. (001210 MMD)
Catalogues & Rollographies
Welte-Mignon 1927 Catalog Supplement -- images courtesy Terry Smythe
Other Welte documents
Welte Organ Testimonials -- courtesy Gerhard Dangel
Welte-Mignon Artists Bernhard Stavenhagen
& Alfred Reisenauer -- "Played after the personal recollection
of Liszt"
text and photos courtesy Gerhard Dangel,
Augustinermuseum, Freiburg
Welte-Mignon Piano Service
Company & Welte-Mignon Piano Corporation, Otto Kremp, President
--
text and photos courtesy Gerhard Dangel,
Augustinermuseum, Freiburg
List of Patents compiled
circa 1944 by Edwin Welte --
courtesy Gerhard Dangel, Augustinermuseum,
Freiburg
'Seismograph' Pen Recorder
-- developed by Auto Pneumatic Action Company
circa 1922 for De Luxe Reproducing Roll Corporation
in order to make records
for the Welte Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Piano
Simonton
Collection of Welte Piano Rolls at USC -- see collection no. 176
Index
of Welte Piano Roll Collection (89 kb)
Catalogs,
Brochures and Technical Manuals (8 kb)
Photos of Pianos & Vorsetzers
John McClelland's 1913 Mason & Hamlin Welte-Mignon
History of the Welte-Mignon in USA
11 February 2000, 12 December 2000