harmonicon

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This may result in a piece played on an instrument from the musical instruments collection, such as the work Glenn Kotche, the drummer for the band Wilco, wrote for a 19th-century stone harmonicon.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2015

The metal harmonicon is known in Javanese language as the gambang, and I have no better name to propose.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

The music consisted of a harmonicon and a notched gourd, which was scraped with an iron rod to mark the time.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

A wheezing strain from the harmonicon followed her into the May sunshine, then ended, abruptly;—Mrs. Price had begun!

From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean

In return for the money, he sends a child’s harmonicon, the retail price of which is fifty cents.

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney