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Noun: "a player organ designed to mimic the sound of an orchestra, manufactured and used from the late 19th century to early 20th century"
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- 1912 — Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain, A Biography: Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907, Chapter CCXXXV:
- He had the orchestrelle moved to Dublin, although it was no small undertaking, for he needed the solace of its harmonies; […]
- 1912 — Will Levington Comfort, Fate Knocks at the Door, Chapter 7:
- Time could not efface the humor evoked by the sight or sound of the magnificent orchestrelle.
- 1925 — Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, Rosetta Books (2002), →ISBN, page 280:
- Fox-trots and one-steps were being supplied by an orchestrelle of considerable size.
