orchestrion
Example Sentences
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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
There was only one instrument in the house which could create this infernal din—the orchestrion in the drawing-room, immediately above which, he recalled, his room was situated.
From The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
She strode without hesitation to the instrument, explored its ribs with a firm finger, pushed something, and the orchestrion broke off in the middle of a bar.
From The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Before the orchestrion that accompanied the merry-go-round had accomplished the first strain of Strauss's waltz I should have been feebly calling for the steward.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
I never asked what Mr. Gluckstein thought of the orchestrion.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
