Peleș Castle Welte Style 7 Concert Orchestrion

Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania, built by King Carol I between 1873 and 1914.
Welte Style 7 Concert Orchestrion No. 340.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

The Peleș Castle's Welte Style 7 Concert Orchestrion, No. 340, built in 1899. When last seen in 1991 by this author, this Style 7 looked as clean as when it left the factory with only its electric motor missing. With the instrument are two matching roll cabinets as ornate as the towering orchestrion itself. It is the largest of the Welte Concert Orchestrion styles known to exist.
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