harmonicon

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This may result in a piece played on an instrument from the musical instruments collection, such as the work Glenn Kotche, the drummer for the band Wilco, wrote for a 19th-century stone harmonicon.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2015

In the breath of the wind these slips, with all their notes varied like those of a harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy murmuring.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

Then the chief musician came with a large wooden harmonicon hung from his neck.

From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Hildibrand, Henri Théophile

The music consisted of a harmonicon and a notched gourd, which was scraped with an iron rod to mark the time.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

There was a moment’s silence, broken by a distant harmonicon.

From An Encore by Stephens, Alice Barber