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 "musical instrument of his invention" was called an orchestrion.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

I could see the right side of the orchestrion, two oleographs, hanging lamps .

From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

She strode without hesitation to the instrument, explored its ribs with a firm finger, pushed something, and the orchestrion broke off in the middle of a bar.

From The Girl on the Boat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)