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 that and the juggling of our friend here and my sister's late husband's orchestrion, you will have no difficulty in amusing yourselves during the evenings.
From The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The basis of Hannibal Perkin's idea was the orchestrion, with the addition of certain adjuncts of the fog-horn, to secure a volume of sound equaling that which nightly woke the echoes and everything else.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
Three years later Abt Vogler’s orchestrion, a chamber organ containing some 900 pipes, was completed, and, according to Rackwitz,5 was fitted with free-reed pipes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
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
