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

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

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

Raymond finally said to me, one evening, in the shadow of the orchestrion.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

In the French room there was a large orchestrion which had been built in Geneva for Madame Patti.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur