单词 | orchestrelle |
释义 | orchestrellen. Originally U.S. Now historical. A type of organ which can be played automatically, in the manner of a player-piano, as well as manually.First produced by the Aeolian Company, manufacturers of mechanical musical instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > other types of organ great organ1605 bird organ1745 serinette1772 euharmonic organ1811 physharmonica1838 harmoniphon1839 seraphine1839 pyrophone1873 string organ1876 orguinette1881 orchestrelle1897 1897 Cent. Mag. Oct. 37/2 (advt.) Aeolian pipe organs and Aeolian pipe orchestrelles. 1898 Aeolian Orchestrelle 1 The Æolian Orchestrelle is the name given to a class of instruments coming between the regular Æolians..and Æolian Pipe Orchestras... Each stop of the Orchestrelle is vested with distinct individuality. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. (1911) Jan. 215/1 Paine began playing on the orchestrelle Schubert's Impromptu. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xviii. 288 Fox-trots and one-steps were being supplied by an orchestrelle of considerable size. 1961 E. Ames Daughter of House (1963) i. vi. 95 The orchestrelle..was a kind of organ which could either be played manually, or—by switching to electrical controls—could be made to play perforated rolls like a player piano. 2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Sept. 3 Miss Winchcombe would..gaze down from the library on Orchestrelle pianola rolls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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