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

It would seem from his description of the orchestrion in Data zur Akustik that Vogler knew of no such device.

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

One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

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

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