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
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 Waterloo, Stanley
I never asked what Mr. Gluckstein thought of the orchestrion.
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
When the wheezy orchestrion started up with Greek airs they were much more alert and appreciative.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
There was only one instrument in the house which could create this infernal din—the orchestrion in the drawing-room, immediately above which, he recalled, his room was situated.
From The Girl on the Boat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
