mechanical instrument

noun

a musical instrument, such as a barrel organ or music box, that plays a preselected piece of music by mechanical means

A professor, half-crazed by drugs and drink, thumps the latest airs on a piano, or a mechanical instrument furnishes the noise.

I speak from personal knowledge of these music rolls, having had a mechanical instrument for some years.

In relation to this end, the eye is a mechanical instrument.

Thus situated and connected, you become the unintentional mechanical instrument of your own and their overthrow.

A mechanical instrument which goes is better than a new concert grand piano that remains shut.

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