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
The tables in the saloon proper were crowded with diners, all men, and a huge orchestrion was grinding out strange and unfamiliar melodies.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
And that huge, portentous orchestrion took up such an immensity of room!
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
