orchestrion
Example Sentences
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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
As the dinner progressed, Claire found that she was to be relieved of her post at the piano by the continuous rumblings of the orchestrion.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
They have a magnificent orchestrion instead of an orchestra here, and I could scarcely eat those beautiful dinners for listening to the music.
From As Seen By Me by Lilian Bell
Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off.
From Three Men and a Maid by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Leverage shook his head sadly and passed on as Carroll and Evelyn disappeared behind the din of an orchestrion.
From Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen
