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

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

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

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

There was only one instrument in the house which could create this infernal din—the orchestrion in the drawing-room, immediately above which, he recalled, his room was situated.

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