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 William Dean Howells
The lad from Lucerne went first, playing briskly upon the harmonicon; the others followed two and two, and Oscar in the middle held aloft the banner.
From Gritli's Children by Louise Brooks
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 Charles Maurice Davies
I have had them on a glass harmonicon.
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various