orchestrion

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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

Beecham p�re soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

On the right hand side of the room is a huge orchestrion or monster music-box, and by its side is a raised platform, occupied by the orchestra employed at the place. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

It would seem from his description of the orchestrion in Data zur Akustik that Vogler knew of no such device.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various