Welte (Welte-Mignon)
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M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg and New York, a manufacturer of orchestrions, organs and reproducing pianos, was established by Michael Welte (1807–1880) in Vöhrenbach in 1832. The Welte-Mignon reproducing piano was launched in 1904. The original system used Red paper for the rolls, later superseded by Green.
Artists who recorded reproducing piano rolls for Welte-Mignon included Gustav Mahler, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Anna Schytte, Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir de Pachmann, Manuel de Falla, Alexander Scriabin, Enrique Granados, Eugen d'Albert, Josef Lhévinne, Giacomo Puccini, Alexander Glazunov, Raoul Pugno, Theodor Leschetizky and Carl Reinecke.