(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

Salomons, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom (England). This grand estate housed Sir David Salomons’ Science Theater, which over time displayed three different large Welte instruments, one replacing the other, the last being a three manual Welte Philharmonic organ still resident today.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

The Welte Style 4 Concert Orchestrion located in Sir David Salomons’ Science Theater can be seen in the upper balcony to the right of photograph center. As the Science Theater evolved the "small" orchestrion perched high up on a balcony was replaced with a much larger Welte Style 10 Concert Orchestrion, but this time situated on an elaborate presentation stage (as shown in the photograph directly below).

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

The Welte Style 10 Concert Orchestrion displayed center stage in Sir David Salomons’ Science Theater. Like its predecessor, the relatively small Welte Style 4 Concert Orchestrion, this large orchestrion was, in turn, replaced with a much larger Welte, this time a mammoth Welte Philharmonic Organ (shown in the photograph directly below).

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

Welte Philharmonic Organ, 1914, at Salomons, Tunbridge Wells, UK. This instrument is a full fledged pipe organ, German built with Welte’s orchestrion vacuum tubular technology. It was built for Sir David Salomons’ Science Theater to replace his smaller Welte Style #10 Concert Orchestrion, which had replaced his even smaller Style #4 Concert Orchestrion. This beautiful organ has three manuals and pedal, and was designed to play either the Style 10 Concert Orchestrion rolls or the later 150 key pipe organ rolls. The organ was restored in 2006, and happily the Salomons estate is open to the public as a museum for all to enjoy.