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

The orchestra, taken as a whole, was rather noisy; but it comprised one instrument, the "bamboo harmonicon," which deserves to be known out of Burmah because of its sweetness and range of tone.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

The guitar was placed on the lap, the curtain fell and it played; so did the fiddle—out of tune, as usual—and also a little glass harmonicon with actually a soupçon of melody.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

The harmonicon ceased, and the censorious professors were forced to stop their cavilling.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

For Charles Augustus, she selected an harmonicon, and toys for the other three Howes.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn