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

What is known as the "orchestrion" is a gigantic musical machine popular in summer gardens, restaurants and various similar places of public resort.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

Raymond finally said to me, one evening, in the shadow of the orchestrion.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

The pianola can never rival the living performer; nor the orchestrion the orchestra; nor the chromo the painting.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss