piano-organ

Example Sentences

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Schweitzer, "still passably robust," was�when last heard from�busy playing Bach on his ant-proof piano-organ, treating and teaching the Africans, and writing his 21st book.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere close at hand a piano-organ was playing the intermezzo from "Cavalleria," and the child tripped towards the sound.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

Could it seem as ordinary to them as the cold uproar of the piano-organ to the urchins of Whitechapel, or the whine of the fiddle to the peasants of Touraine where Suzanne was born?

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

He sang a composition of his own, which even the piano-organ had never succeeded in making hackneyed, 'Adieu, Hiver,' and melodious as only Italian music can be.

From Love at Second Sight by Leverson, Ada

"But he'd be better equipped if he drove about in a piano-organ, or if he preferred an auto on a steam calliope."

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney