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
In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
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)
Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
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
