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

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)

One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

With that and the juggling of our friend here and my sister's late husband's orchestrion, you will have no difficulty in amusing yourselves during the evenings.

From The Girl on the Boat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)