harmonicon

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This may result in a piece played on an instrument from the musical instruments collection, such as the work Glenn Kotche, the drummer for the band Wilco, wrote for a 19th-century stone harmonicon.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2015

There was a moment's silence, broken by a distant harmonicon.

From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean

In the breath of the wind these slips, with all their notes varied like those of a harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy murmuring.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

The guitar was placed on the lap, the curtain fell and it played; so did the fiddle—out of tune, as usual—and also a little glass harmonicon with actually a soupçon of melody.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

For Charles Augustus, she selected an harmonicon, and toys for the other three Howes.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn