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
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 Kate Sanborn
Leverage shook his head sadly and passed on as Carroll and Evelyn disappeared behind the din of an orchestrion.
From Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen
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 Henry Blake Fuller
One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
