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

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

A wheezing strain from the harmonicon followed her into the May sunshine, then ended, abruptly;—Mrs. Price had begun!

From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean

The metal harmonicon is known in Javanese language as the gambang, and I have no better name to propose.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

The ranat, or harmonicon, is a wooden instrument, with keys made of wood from the bashoo-nut tree.

From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette