piano-organ

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Schweitzer, "still passably robust," was�when last heard from�busy playing Bach on his ant-proof piano-organ, treating and teaching the Africans, and writing his 21st book.

From Time Magazine Archive

Examined by Sir Leonardo Spaghetti Coyne, Mr. Hole said that he was not aware that the mortality among monkeys employed in the piano-organ industry during the late War was excessive.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various

"But he'd be better equipped if he drove about in a piano-organ, or if he preferred an auto on a steam calliope."

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Somewhere at a distance a cracked old piano-organ was romping and giggling rapturously through the syncopated measures of Tin Pan Alley's latest "rag."

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

He sang a composition of his own, which even the piano-organ had never succeeded in making hackneyed, 'Adieu, Hiver,' and melodious as only Italian music can be.

From Love at Second Sight by Leverson, Ada