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

Raymond finally said to me, one evening, in the shadow of the orchestrion.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

The orchestrion blares, the chimes ring a knell to peace and harmony, the calliope shrieks to heaven.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate

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)