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
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
In the French room there was a large orchestrion which had been built in Geneva for Madame Patti.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur
Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.
From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off.
From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
