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Synonyms for orchestrion


Grammar : Noun
Spell : awr-kes-tree-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ɔrˈkɛs tri ən



Définition of orchestrion

  • As in music box : noun device playing music
Example sentences :
  • They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!
  • Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  • Raymond finally said to me, one evening, in the shadow of the orchestrion.
  • Extract from : « On the Stairs » by Henry B. Fuller
  • I never asked what Mr. Gluckstein thought of the orchestrion.
  • Extract from : « On the Stairs » by Henry B. Fuller
  • This orchestrion was a superior one, with a varied programme.
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
  • The "musical instrument of his invention" was called an orchestrion.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the Study of Browning » by Arthur Symons
  • It was a kind of combination between a gramaphone and an orchestrion.
  • Extract from : « Septimus » by William J. Locke
  • It would seem from his description of the orchestrion in Data zur Akustik that Vogler knew of no such device.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
  • In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.
  • Extract from : « Robert Browning » by Edward Dowden
  • Panharmonicon, pan-har-mon′i-kon, n. a mechanical musical instrument of the orchestrion class.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
  • The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song.
  • Extract from : « The Open Boat and Other Stories » by Stephen Crane

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