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

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

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

Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off.

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

The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song.

From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen