orchestrion
Example Sentences
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See, for instance, the music room, where a brass-looking, water-spewing elephant trunk fuels the instruments, including an ornate orchestrion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
I could see the right side of the orchestrion, two oleographs, hanging lamps .
From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
A large orchestrion plays from time to time during meals.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
The orchestrion blares, the chimes ring a knell to peace and harmony, the calliope shrieks to heaven.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
In the centre of the place was a carrousel from which came the blare of a steam orchestrion playing the "Marseillaise," one of their popular songs.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
