Ad in "Münchner neueste Nachrichten" 15.11.1910 Alfred Schmid Nachf. Transcription and encoding Pfeffer Niels Pfeffer Niels Tübingen 2026

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This advertisement was published two days before a performance on 20 November 1910. It was extended for a further performance on 8 December 1910 (see ad005). Mit dem Welte Mignon ist ... Mit dem Welte Mignon ... Alfred Schmid Nachf. Münchner neueste Nachrichten München 1910 Münchner neueste Nachrichten 15.11.1910 3 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00130861?page=335

The Welte-Mignon Advertisements Collection brings together print advertisements for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano that appeared between 1905 and 1930. It was created as part of the PhD project "Grünfelds Geist" at the University of Tübingen, which considers piano rolls as objects of a digital edition. The collection is published at https://anz.welte225.org.

The collection gathers print advertisements for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano that appeared between 1905 and 1930 and were published by M. Welte & Söhne, by one of its licensees, or by a dealer or agent selling the instrument. Each advertisement is encoded once; its further printings, in the same or in other periodicals, are listed as further sources.

The advertisements were found in digitised newspapers and magazines: Chronicling America (Library of Congress), the British Newspaper Archive, HathiTrust (copies of the Universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia), the Internet Archive, the Digitale Sammlungen of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ANNO (Austrian National Library), the International Arcade Museum Library, Georgia Historic Newspapers, Delpher (KB, National Library of the Netherlands), eluxemburgensia (National Library of Luxembourg), RetroNews (Bibliothèque nationale de France), the archives of Le Temps, the Nasjonalbiblioteket of Norway, Mediestream (Royal Danish Library), the National Library of Latvia (through Europeana), Canadiana, the Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México, the St Petersburg State Theatre Library, Trove (National Library of Australia), the newspapers of the Kungliga biblioteket of Sweden, e-newspaperarchives.ch, BAnQ numérique (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec), the Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica, the archive of ABC, ARCA (Biblioteca de Catalunya) and Polona (National Library of Poland).

Each file transcribes one printing of an advertisement, the one whose scan its facsimile zones refer to; decls on text points to its sourceDesc. The further printings were identified as the same advertisement but not collated word for word; differences that were noticed are recorded with app or in a note.

The regions and lines of the scans were mostly marked in eScriptorium and converted from PAGE XML to TEI. The text was in part recognised automatically (HTR) and corrected against the scan, in part transcribed by hand. The advertisements published outside Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and a few from Germany, were transcribed from the scans, encoded, given their regions and annotated with topics by Claude, an AI model; their revision history says so. Until the editor has checked such an advertisement against the scan, status on its revisionDesc is unchecked; that of every other advertisement is checked.

Errors of the original are not corrected but marked with sic.

Spelling and punctuation follow the original and are not normalised. Text set in capitals is often transcribed in mixed case and marked with the rendition #uc.

Hyphens at the end of a line are kept as printed.

Every region of the original page is a div that points to its zone in the facsimile with facs. The lines of the original are marked with lb; the typography is recorded with rendition. The zones refer to the first graphic of a surface, the scan they were drawn on. Where the holding library serves the page through IIIF, a second graphic of the type IIIF gives that image and its size.

Parts of an advertisement that concern other products than the Welte-Mignon are not transcribed but marked with gap, which describes them in a desc. Illustrations are described in figure. Persons are linked to the GND with corresp. Recurring motifs are marked as topics with ana on seg and figure, pointing to the taxonomy of topics; these are an interpretation, by whom resp says.

Dates of publication are given in ISO 8601 in when, as precisely as they are known.

 font-weight: bold; text-align: center; margin-left: 4em; font-size: 150%; font-size: 120%; text-align: right; Topics: recurring motifs of the advertisements, in their texts and in their pictures Distinction from Mechanical Often, the adverts try to distinguish reproducing piano rolls from mere mechanical methods (such as the player piano). Educational Use Immortality This topic emphasizes the perdurance of the reproductions and how thus the recording artists become immortal. Technical Invention Touch of a Button The Welte-Mignon is permanently available and "objectified" for the entertainment of the owner – on the touch of a button. Ideal Instrument German Licence changed to CC BY 4.0. Marked as checked by the editor. Date of the edition brought up to date; the revisions below give the earlier history. Transcribed printing marked; link to the digital images added; note translated into English; the page through IIIF added. Encoding description, schema reference, ISO dates and language codes added. Stable identifiers for the topic segments added. Made valid against tei_all. TEI header corrected. Layout encoding checked and corrected against the scan. Encoding revised. Transcribed and encoded.
Felix Mottl Max Reger Richard Strauss
Das Welte Mignon ist eine unbedingt geniale Erfindung , und hat einen hohen künstlerischen Wert. Ich habe selten eine so schöne und freudige Ueberraschung erlebt, wie heute, wo ich dieses prächtige Instrument kennen gelernt habe. Felix Mottl. Mignon ist für mich das unerreichte Ideal aller Musik-Instrumente , eine Erfindung von unschätz- barer Bedeutung für Lehrer, Schüler , Publikum und alle Künstler. Max Reger. Das Welte Mignon ist eine ganz ausserordentliche Erfindung, von allen derartigen Mechanismen der Einzige, der auf künstlerische Bedeutung Anspruch machen kann. Den Erfindern meine aufrichtige Bewunderung. Richard Strauss.
Mit dem Welte Mignon ist, wie die berühmtesten Künstler anerkennen, ein phantastisch scheinender Gedanke verwirklicht, nämlich das Klavierspiel eines Künstlers mit all' seinen persönlichen Eigenschaften - des Anschlags, der Phrasierung, des Pedalgebrauchs etc. zu verewigen . Die Wiedergaben des Mignon haben jeden Rest des mecha- nischen verlassen. Dass es sich um eine Erfindung von ausserordentlicher künstlerischer Bedeutung handelt, beweist ihr Gebrauch im K. K. Konservatorium in Wien zu Studienzwecken . Der Besitzer eines Welte Mignon kann sich jederzeit von den berühmtesten Musikern, wie d'Albert Carreno, Lamond, Mottl, Reger, Strauss, Paderewsky etc. vorspielen lassen.
Vorführung Sonntag, d. 20. November Nachmittag 4 Uhr im Konzertsaal des Bayerischen Hofes
Eintrittskarten zu 50 Pfg. sind bei Alfred Schmid Nachf.,
Theatinerstrasse 34
, zu haben. Sonntag Nachmittag ab 3 1/2 Uhr auch am Saaleingang.