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

Cyrus, I worry so, because I'm sure that woman thinks she can catch your father again.—Oh, just listen to that harmonicon downstairs!

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

He played upon the old harmonicon, "organic law," and "the harmony of the statutes."

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In return for the money, he sends a child’s harmonicon, the retail price of which is fifty cents.

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney