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单词 orchestrelle
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orchestrellen.

Brit. /ˈɔːkᵻstrɛl/, /ˈɔːkɛstrɛl/, U.S. /ˈɔrkəˌstrɛl/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: orchestra n., French -elle.
Etymology: < orchestra n. + French -elle, diminutive suffix (see -el suffix2).
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.
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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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