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

Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.

From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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

It is only Barnum's steam orchestrion, Barnum's steam chimes, and Barnum's steam calliope, followed by an array of ruff-scruff.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate