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
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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
In the French room there was a large orchestrion which had been built in Geneva for Madame Patti.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur