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 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

With stiff wooden legs, they swept on in a never-ending race, while a great orchestrion clamored in wild speed.

From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen

He had invented a Panharmonicon, an automaton instrument containing most of the instruments found in full orchestra, on the principle of the modern orchestrion.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander