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 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 Charles Maurice Davies
Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begin with a very pure-sounding harmonicon of one octave, to which afterwards there could be an extension.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Then the chief musician came with a large wooden harmonicon hung from his neck.
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
The ranat, or harmonicon, is a wooden instrument, with keys made of wood from the bashoo-nut tree.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
