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

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

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

In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

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