The Collaborative International Dictionary
Welte \Welte\, obs.
imp. of Weld, to wield.
--Chaucer.
Wikipedia
Welte may refer to:
In people:
- Benedict Welte, a German Catholic exegete
- Gottlieb Welté, an etcher and landscape painter from Mainz, Germany
- Harald Welte, a programmer resident in Berlin, Germany
In other uses:
- Welte-Mignon, a manufacturer of orchestrions, organs and reproducing pianos
- Wetzer-Welte Kirchenlexikon, an encyclopedic work of Catholic biography, history, and theology
Usage examples of "welte".
In Germany the Ariston player with thirty-six notes then the Hupfeld with sixty-one still no pneumatics till the Welte family patents its pneumatic Orchestrion operated with a perforated paper roll, in France Carpentier shows his Melograph and Melotrope to the French Academy, mechanical fingers brought to life by electromagnets and a perforated strip.
Adam Loo Adam, in the feeld of Damyssene, With Goddes owene fynger wroght was he, And nat bigeten of mannes sperme unclene, And welte all Paradys, savynge o tree.
These Welte, Duo-Art Pianolas, Ampico all over the place what they'd done was to make the transient permanent, given the fleeting nature of music of great performances of great music a permanence that's the heart of authenticity, that preserved the whole concept of authenticity stood Leonardo da Vinci on his ear holding painting an art superior to music because of music's evanescent quality can't lose it no, don't have to write it down I can't forget it, it's beautiful, simple and beautiful like discovering space is curved good God, just the sheer simplicity of it the, where Occam's razor looked on beauty bare got to write it down before it gets lost, before it gets stolen before I have a chance to write it down like everything else because if Gould hated the idea of being between Bach and the Steinway if he could be the Steinway he wouldn't need Glenn Gould when Welte's reproducing apparatus put Debussy into the piano then you wouldn't need Debussy.