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

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)

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

From An Encore by Stephens, Alice Barber

"True," replied the professor, "and your planet turns out to be an insignificant harmonicon."

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)