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
With stiff wooden legs, they swept on in a never-ending race, while a great orchestrion clamored in wild speed.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
It would seem from his description of the orchestrion in Data zur Akustik that Vogler knew of no such device.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
What is known as the "orchestrion" is a gigantic musical machine popular in summer gardens, restaurants and various similar places of public resort.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
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