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
"Well, I merely heard you above the steam harmonicon at the switchback," said Miss Dale.
From An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga by Howells, William Dean
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
Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begin with a very pure-sounding harmonicon of one octave, to which afterwards there could be an extension.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Then the chief musician came with a large wooden harmonicon hung from his neck.
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Hildibrand, Henri Théophile