Welte Style 3 Cottage Orchestrion

Welte Style 3 Cottage Orchestrion.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center)

Figure 20. The Style 3 is the largest of the Cottage Orchestrion series, which has the added Posaune register with the six larger brass pipes seen in the left and right windows of the case. The remainder of the Posaune register consists of stopped wood pipes. Also added was the Octave register, a set of open wood pipes speaking an octave above unison pitch. On some Style 3 organs, an additional register is found, the Gamba. This has a string sound using small scale open pipes. Both wood and metal Gamba pipes are known. With 44 playing notes, the pipework consists of Trompette, Posaune, Wald Flote, Octave, Zinn, and possibly Gamba, for a total of 164 pipes, or 189 pipes if the Gamba rank is present.

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