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
Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
There was only one instrument in the house which could create this infernal din—the orchestrion in the drawing-room, immediately above which, he recalled, his room was situated.
From The Girl on the Boat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen
In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
