1923 WELTE-MIGNON Library Of De Luxe MUSIC RECORDS CATALOG Player Piano Rolls

Antique, Original…

1923

Library Of De Luxe WELTE-MIGNON MUSIC RECORDS

For Reproducing Pianos Equipped With The Welte Mignon

CATALOG BOOK

This is an antique catalog for music records and music rolls for the Welte-Mignon Reproducing piano with prices. Included in this book is an artists list (pages 7-173) with many photographs of some of the composers / musicians, with brief biography and testimonial about the Welte Mignon with quote and facsimile signatures. Artist photos & testimonials with facsimile autographs include Ruth Bingaman, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Carreno, Austin Conradi, Eugene D’Albert, Laura Danziger, Mettler Davis, Claude Debussy, Cecile DeHorvath, Ernst Dohnanyi, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Rudolph Ganz, Alexander Glazounoff, Eduard Grieg, Edna S. Hart, Josef Hofmann, Englebert Humperdinck, Art Kahn, Julius Koehl, Frank La Forge, Frederic Lamond, Theodor Leschetizky, Josef Lhevinne, Yolanda Mero, Katinka Narinska, Elly Ney, Arthur Nikisch, Guiomar Novaes, Vladimir DePachmann, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Emil Paur, Raoul Pugno, Alfred Reisenauer, Camille Saint-Saens, Olga Samaroff, Emil Sauer, Xaver Scharwenka, Ernest Schelling, Germaine Schnitzer, Alexander Scriabin, Cyrill Scott, Charles Gilbert Spross, Richard Strauss, & Augusta Tollefsen.

Produced by De Luxe Roll Corporation.

256 pages.

Measures 6 1/3” x 9”.

Some history:

The end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century was the golden age of mechanical musical instruments. During this period, the instrument with the highest level of mechanical sophistication was the automatic reproducing piano. The first such instrument, manufactured in 1904 through the efforts of Edwin Welte of Germany and others, was the Welte Automatic Reproducing Piano, which utilized a paper roll.

CONDITION:

Excellent antique, preowned condition. Light wear to leather covers with tears at edges. Some pages have creases. Page 35/36 has been torn and taped. Last page has tear in it. Most pages inside are clean with few having marks or stains on them. See photos for details.

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