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
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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
When the wheezy orchestrion started up with Greek airs they were much more alert and appreciative.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
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