orchestrion

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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

Beecham p�re soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leverage shook his head sadly and passed on as Carroll and Evelyn disappeared behind the din of an orchestrion.

From Midnight by Cohen, Octavus Roy

Three years later Abt Vogler’s orchestrion, a chamber organ containing some 900 pipes, was completed, and, according to Rackwitz,5 was fitted with free-reed pipes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

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 Sanborn, Kate