LP 5 RECORD SET-LEGENDARY PIANO IMMORTALS-FROM WELTE MIGNON&DUO ART PIANO ROLLS
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SUPERB COLLECTION FROM MURRAY HILL RECORDS. EIGHT GREAT PIANISTS FROM AMPICO, DUO ART AND WELTE MIGNON PIANO ROLLS. RECORDINGS ARE SUPERB AND IN STEREO. RECORD BOX SHOWS DARKENING FROM AGE AND SOME SMALL STAINS, RECORDS ARE IN NEARLY UNHANDLED CONDITION.
Welte rolls and pianos were produced by the successors of Michael Welte & Sons Inc. of Freiburg and New York, New York, with their own factory in Poughkeepsie.
This led to other reproducing pianos and rolls that duplicate musicians' artistry. Reproducing music rolls have extra expression holes that activate pneumatics not on ordinary player-pianos, thus achieving varying expression or shading. Artists' phrasing and rubati are preserved in such rolls.
In America, the large Aeolian Company liked Welte's invention and, around 1913, jumped into the reproducing field by making Duo-Art rolls. Competition came from the American Piano Company, whose Ampico rolls were first marketed around 1915 on pianos made by Knabe, Chickering, J. & C. Fischer, Mason & Hamlin. Duo-Art and Ampico were electrically-driven systems usually fitted into pianos made by the most prestigious companies. Great concert pianists, even composers like Debussy and Grieg, entrusted their performances to rolls designed for these pianos. Famous names found on Ampico and Duo-Art rolls include Josef Lhevinne, Josef Hofmann, Moritz Rosenthal, Harold Bauer, Sergei Rachmanioff, Paderewski.
Just a reminder: I'm not a dealer and I don't have a store. All items I sell come from three generations of my family. Please contact me if you need more information on any listing, and I am still listing a collection of over 500 classical 78 rpm albums which belonged to my mother.PAYMENT
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If payment is not received within 3 days of the end of the auction, the item will be relisted.
SHIPPING
POSTAGE IS ALWAYS FREE TO THE LOWER 48
I ship using USPS.
Shipping for all books and records is by media mail, the rest is by parcel post.
RETURNS
I only accept returns if the item has been damaged in transit or if you feel the description was grossly misleading. Contact me within 3 days of receiving you item and we can arrange a refund and return.
I WILL SHIP INTERNATIONALLY, BUT THIS WILL ENTAIL GETTING A POSTAGE ESTIMATE ON THE PACKED ITEM AND THEN ADDING THE ADDITIONAL COST TO YOUR INVOICE.
UNLESS YOU’R PURCHASE FALLS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SUNDAY OR A FEDERAL HOLIDAY, I ALWAYS try to SHIP THE SAME DAY THAT YOUR PAYMENT IS RECEIVED!
Please check out my other items! I will combine shipping for multiple purchases upon buyer request. International buyer - I will send you an invoice after the auction ends but you will not receive an invoice for 48 hours because the item will be packed and taken to post office first to get exact amount of postage.
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