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

He felt, too, from her various glances and shrugs, that the house was more of a horror to her than ever, and, above all, that abominable orchestrion more hugely preposterous.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

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

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

When the wheezy orchestrion started up with Greek airs they were much more alert and appreciative.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell