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
In the French room there was a large orchestrion which had been built in Geneva for Madame Patti.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
He felt, too, from her various glances and shrugs, that the house was more of a horror to her than ever, and, above all, that abominable orchestrion more hugely preposterous.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
I could see the right side of the orchestrion, two oleographs, hanging lamps .
From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
