We Make Piano Rolls to Your Wishes

To conserve resources and to be able to meet individual requests, we produce only to order. Depending on production, we also keep accessories such as boxes and spools, as well as some rolls, in stock. Because of the high demand for our rolls and large digitization projects, it takes a little patience, but the wait is worth it!

Please send us your order (for piano rolls, the numbers are enough) by email to info@pianolarollen.de, including your address, or use our contact form. We will check availability and email you a quote including the estimated shipping costs and the planned shipping date. Every shipment includes detailed instructions on using and storing the rolls. You will find all details on price, delivery and payment in our quote. If you are ever not satisfied, please contact us directly. Despite all our care, mistakes can happen, and there is always a solution.

As Close to the Original as Possible

We make piano rolls for various player systems such as Welte, Hupfeld, Philipps, Weber, etc., and in various formats such as 65-note, 88-note, Welte red/green, DEA, DUCA, etc. Currently, these are mainly Welte T100 red, Weber Unika and 88-note rolls. For authenticity, our Welte red rolls, for example, use specially made red paper, wooden flanges, string ties, labels modeled on the originals and sturdy handmade boxes with hinged lids. Our goal is that, at first glance, neither roll nor box can be told apart from the original. You will find our iDMP mark only inside the box and, very small, on the box label. This means our rolls can also be shown in public exhibitions and presented at demonstrations.

You can find our current range in the lists below. Feel free to ask about titles that are not yet listed there, as we are constantly adding new titles and can move them up on request. If you would like to provide a roll for digitization that we do not list here yet, please get in touch. If you want to buy or sell original Welte or other rolls, FASZINATIONPIANOLA (contact) will be glad to hear from you.

Find Plenty of Welte Piano Rolls Here

This list contains the Welte titles from which you can choose your numbers. We already have many more titles in our repertoire and hundreds more planned for digitization. So please ask if you are looking for particular titles or need other roll formats (e.g. Hupfeld Tri-Phonola, Philipps DUCA/RTIST or similar). We have digitized many hundreds of original Welte T98 rolls, but, just as Welte did back then, we convert between Welte T100 (red) and T98 if we only have a title in one format so far. The same applies to other manufacturers such as Hupfeld, which converted from its original DEA format to Tri-Phonola when the standard scale was introduced.

Prices of Welte Piano Rolls

Back then, Welte divided its prices into three categories according to roll length and title, also depending on the royalties to be paid. Until 1914, a piano roll cost between 6.00 and 50.00 marks. Converted into euros, that would be about €33 to €275 today! Depending on the title, roll lengths vary between about 5 m and 50 m (16 to 165 ft); the great majority of rolls have paper lengths of about 15 to 35 m (50 to 115 ft). We also offer our Welte rolls in three price categories, depending on paper length. We will be glad to tell you the prices on request. For orders of 10 rolls or more, we offer project-based discounts. On request, we use a sturdy white paper for the test rolls so that the notes are easier to read.

Welte Test Rolls and Special Rolls

To regulate an instrument properly, the technical test and adjustment rolls are essential. After years of searching, we have been able to locate all relevant original rolls for Welte and most other systems, and we now offer them as recuts. For owners of an instrument, we recommend the complete set of tuning scale, technical test roll, trial rolls and demonstration rolls. We can write the test instructions on the rolls by hand and/or supply them on a separate sheet. The technical trial rolls contain short pieces of music that put a well-regulated instrument to the test, right up to its limits. The original demonstration rolls contain excerpts from pieces of music to present the instrument at its best. We also perforate custom compilations on request. The same applies to other pieces, meaning we can combine titles of your choice on one roll.

Accessories for Piano Rolls

We usually make the components for our rolls, true to the originals, ourselves, or have them produced for us in Germany. It is often not easy to find manufacturers for these special components, because this know-how was lost when the original piano roll production ended in the late 1930s.

Depending on availability, you can order roll boxes, flanges, spool cores and labels from us. Currently, these are mainly Welte red, Welte green, Philipps DUCA, Weber Unika, etc. If you are interested, please send us your requirements, including the necessary details such as dimensions or lettering.

Unika Piano Rolls

Weber Unika rolls usually contain three to four titles, are quite long and have an elaborate wooden spool. We have digitized a large stock of original titles and offer them as recuts. Here you can find the Unika piano roll list. We make the wooden spools, true to the originals, ourselves, and have the white paper and the boxes made in Germany. Weber apparently had no uniform system for roll numbers back then; instead, each customer received a selection of rolls with the instrument, numbered from No. 1 and with different combinations of titles.

Back then, the price was 0.90 marks per meter, so a 45 m (148 ft) roll cost 40.50 marks, which would be about €223 today. If you are interested in Unika recuts, please write to us with the roll numbers, and we will send you a quote depending on availability.