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

The basis of Hannibal Perkin's idea was the orchestrion, with the addition of certain adjuncts of the fog-horn, to secure a volume of sound equaling that which nightly woke the echoes and everything else.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.

From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)

Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.

From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)