Catalogue Illustration of a
Welte Style 5 Concert Orchestrion
in a Gothic Case

This illustration from a German Welte catalogue depicts a Style 5 Concert Orchestrion housed in an unusual gothic styled case. The photograph probably dates from the mid to late 1890s. It is unknown how many of this special case style might have been built.

Although the majority of Welte instruments adhered to what many enthusiasts consider its standard casework architecture, there were many variations to this. Some of these were probably the result of customer orders for a special and/or unique case appearance, some instances more extreme than others, but all were conceptually beautiful and equally majestic.