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M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg and New York was a manufacturer of orchestrions, organs and reproducing pianos, established in Vöhrenbach by Michael Welte in 1832.
Welte Concert Orchestrion, style 6, number 198 (1895)
1862 International Exhibition London: The Orchestrion by M. Welte, of Vöhrenbach, in the Zollverein division. (The Illustrated London News, Sept. 20, 1862.)
Steinway-Welte reproducing piano (1919)
Welte Philharmonic Organ
HMHS Britannic
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HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of ocean liners and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the younger sister of RMS Olympi
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…One of these organs can also be seen in the Scotty's Castle museum in Death Valley where it is played regularly during museum tours. An organ built for HMHS Britannic never made its way to Belfast due to the outbreak of the First World War. It can currently be heard playing in the Swiss National Museum in Seewen. In…
His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Britannic
A postcard, after a painting by Charles Dixon, showing Britannic at sea in her original White Star livery
The Arrol Gantry towering above Britannic, circa 1914
One of Britannic's funnels being transported to Harland & Wolff shipyards