orchestrion
Example Sentences
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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
Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off.
From Three Men and a Maid by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The tables in the saloon proper were crowded with diners, all men, and a huge orchestrion was grinding out strange and unfamiliar melodies.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
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
The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
