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

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

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

One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake