calliope

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Then we went through our industrial phase: The calliope appeared atop a plume of pressurized steam in the early 1850s.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

Try a few, crank up the calliope and make your own show.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

Linthicum also contributes saloon piano and calliope organ, as well as weepy steel guitar on “Old Fashioned Man,” a country waltz about not dancing.

From Washington Times • Dec. 9, 2020

Her six-year-old feet skimming swiftly over battered gray grass, twinkly, too-bright colored lights, shards of mirror, the wild music of a steam calliope.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2019

It was the steam calliope on the Case Special, flinging a tune to the four winds.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck