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

I never asked what Mr. Gluckstein thought of the orchestrion.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

As the dinner progressed, Claire found that she was to be relieved of her post at the piano by the continuous rumblings of the orchestrion.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

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

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