orchestrion

Example Sentences

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See, for instance, the music room, where a brass-looking, water-spewing elephant trunk fuels the instruments, including an ornate orchestrion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

Beecham p�re soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the dinner progressed, Claire found that she was to be relieved of her post at the piano by the continuous rumblings of the orchestrion.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

The pianola can never rival the living performer; nor the orchestrion the orchestra; nor the chromo the painting.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.

From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)