orchestrion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of orchestrion
1830–40; orchestr(a) + -ion, as in accordion
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
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
The pianola can never rival the living performer; nor the orchestrion the orchestra; nor the chromo the painting.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
There was only one instrument in the house which could create this infernal din—the orchestrion in the drawing-room, immediately above which, he recalled, his room was situated.
From The Girl on the Boat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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