(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center)

Figure 50. Welte Brisgovia Style D without a case, from circa 1912. This instrument was originally installed in a chamber and spoke through an opening in the wall. Notice the chromatic placement of the pipework, a less artistic arrangement, but because the pipes were no longer visible this was a more practical and economical design. This instrument is now housed in an appropriate case.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center)

Figure 51. A large Welte Piano Orchestrion built for the Packard residence of motor car fame. Housed in a rather plain mahogany Louis XVI case, the lower front panels have been removed to show the feeder pumps and the duplex roll frame. One roll can play while the other rewinds automatically.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center)

Figure 52. Welte Friburgia as pictured In a Welte catalog from around 1910. The Friburgia piano based orchestrions were said to use “rolls recorded from the playing of pianists, in co-operation with an expression device that regulates the unlimited modulation of tone, and the melody and accompaniment is balanced to the finest shade." Friburgia piano orchestrions contained "a first-class piano without keyboard, but to obtain an orchestral effect, a bass drum, triangle, kettle drum, small drum, cymbals, xylophone, and harp have been added to the piano, and in such a way that the strength of the stroke of these instruments follows all the shades of expression of the piano, thus maintaining and perfecting the effect of the human playing." The Friburgia line of orchestrions used a slightly modified version of the 100 key Welte-Mignon reproducing piano roll. By deleting several of the lowest notes and using these spaces on the scale for orchestrion functions, Welte had an orchestrion that was said to have played with human expression.