
Year built: 1909
Serial number: 5338
Player system: Stella
Height: ~1.30 m
Hugo Popper played a major part in the success of the Welte-Mignon. When the business relationship between Welte and Popper ended, Popper, at astonishingly the same time, brought the Popper Welt piano “Stella” onto the market in 1908. A reproducing instrument with extremely great technical similarity to the Welte piano – but better constructed in many parts. This Popper Stella instrument is extremely rare, since only very few Stellas were sold. It was technically renovated in 2020 – it is now probably the only renovated Stella piano in the world. Thanks to the similarity of the music rolls as well, we are able to transfer all Welte-Mignon titles for this piano too.