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
On the right hand side of the room is a huge orchestrion or monster music-box, and by its side is a raised platform, occupied by the orchestra employed at the place.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
The "musical instrument of his invention" was called an orchestrion.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.
From Three Men and a Maid by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
