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

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

They have a magnificent orchestrion instead of an orchestra here, and I could scarcely eat those beautiful dinners for listening to the music.

From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian

In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

The orchestrion blares, the chimes ring a knell to peace and harmony, the calliope shrieks to heaven.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate