orchestrion

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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

Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.

From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)

Before the orchestrion that accompanied the merry-go-round had accomplished the first strain of Strauss's waltz I should have been feebly calling for the steward.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

He had invented a Panharmonicon, an automaton instrument containing most of the instruments found in full orchestra, on the principle of the modern orchestrion.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander