M. Welte & Sons in New York was the US address of the company M. Welte & It was created 1866 by Emil Welte and led from it to 1912.

The address in New York served for first above all to the sales of the Orchestrien produced in Germany as well as support of the numerous customers in the USA.

1912 became the company Teil of the again-created M. Welte & Sons, Inc., a corporation with seat in New York. In this society also the 1906 came up for the selling of the Welte Mignon Reproduktionsklaviere of Edwin Welte created Welte Artistic Player company. In the same year its own production building in Poughkeepsie, N.Y was established.

Starting from 1916 "the car pneumatics Action company got "from Welte the license to build own piano models using the Welte Mignon technology. This company used now more modern 11 - tariff the format for the note roles after the Buffalo Convention, the roles became initial from "M. Welte & Sons, Inc. "supplied. The rendition equipment was manufactured completely by "the cars pneumatics Action company "and sold to further piano manufacturers, that wanted to likewise sell reproduction pianos.

Altogether gave in the USA nearly 130 different piano marks, which built and sold this Welte Mignon mechanics under the name Welte Mignon Licensee into their instruments. From 1916 to 1919 M. Welte & Sons placed, Inc. the roles for these Licensee instruments in Poughkeepsie ago. After 1920 car pneumatics had to supply itself with note roles. But a new department named "De Luxe Reproducing roll corporation "for the production of so-called Licensee roles was created. The last new Welte Mignon Licensee roles was published in May 1932. Thus the new publications in the USA and the Welte Mignon photographs ended stopped. Starting from October 1933 "the QRS Music Inc. took over. "in Buffalo, N.Y the trade with the Licensee roles still remained and sold these as required. With the war entrance of the USA 1916 the shares of the M. Welte in German possession & Sons became., Inc. after the law for the administration of hostile property (Alien Property Custodian act) seized and in March 1919 publicly auctioneers. The company was already resold however by the new owners in May 1919 at George W. Gittins. This sold for his part the work in Poughkeepsie, transferred the remaining firm property into "the Welte Mignon corporation "and shifted the seat to New York into the quarter Bronx.

The instruments built now had another technology than the original, also the note roles were no longer compatible. The instruments were sold as "Welte Mignon original Pianos ".

By the introduction of new technologies such as broadcast and electrical Schallplattenspieler around 1926 the business met with the instruments almost for succumbing, world-wide fallow the entire industry. 1928 were also "the Welte Mignon corporation "in serious financial difficulties.

Therefore the entire department of reproduction pianos was sold, the production of instruments adjusted, only a service enterprise remained continuing. This Welte Mignon Piano service CO. under the former Otto world-I/O-posed Kremp originating from Freiburg still existed into the 1940er years.

The organ department was sold at Donald Tripp, to which these late to "the W.W sold. Kimball company ", an organ building firm from Chicago, Illinois.

Literature

• Automatic music instruments from Freiburg into the world - 100 years Welte Mignon: Augustinermuseum, exhibition from 17 September 2005 to 8 January 2006/Hrsg.: Augustinermuseum. With Beitr. by Durward R. Center, Gerhard Dangel,"Â… (talk.: Gerhard Dangel). Freiburg: Augustinermuseum, 2005.
• Herbert Orchestrien from the Black Forest: Instruments, companies and production programmes. Mountain churches: PVMedien, OD. Bochinsky 2004. (Technical book row "the music instrument"; 88) ISBN 3-932275-84-5

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