单词 | orchestrion |
释义 | orchestrionn. Music. Now historical. †(a) A keyboard instrument constructed so as to imitate various other musical instruments. Obsolete. (b) A mechanical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but of more elaborate construction, producing sounds intended to imitate the effect of an orchestra. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > others coriunc1275 symphonyc1290 symphan1303 minstrelsyc1390 bougounc1400 clokarde?c1475 dulsacordisa1525 symphioun1578 sumphion?1590 clasher1621 orphion1658 polyphone1684 roundball1688 phonomime1834 orchestrion1838 sabbeka1844 bullroarer1848 creaker1855 melodikon1857 symphonia1864 organophone1880 magnetophone1883 Kaffir piano1897 jazzophone1926 mouth bow1932 wobbleboard1960 singing bowl1980 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ hand organ1721 street organ1769 barrel organ1772 music box1773 grinding-organ1801 panharmonicon1811 flute-organ1828 orchestrino1838 orchestrion1838 organ1841 piano organ1842 autophone1850 grind-organ1888 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 519/1 Orchestrion... It was a kind of portable organ, about nine feet in height, breadth, and depth... Another instrument of the same name, invented in 1796,..consisted of a piano-forte, combined with some organ-stops. 1880–1 Libr. Universal Knowl. X. 63 Organo-Lyricon,..piano~forte combined with 12 kinds of wind-instruments..the first of a number of similar inventions, such as the orchestrion. 1882 C. W. Wood In Black Forest 115 The Black Forest is famous for these mechanical organs—orchestrions, as they are called. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West 234 ‘I see in St. Louis once what they call a orchestrion,’ says Uncle Cal. 1964 Listener 12 Mar. 432/2 As we stood beside a Victorian orchestrion, which is a complete mechanical orchestra in itself, I asked him how it worked. 1994 Times 6 June 6/6 Made in Germany in 1868 for the Maharajah of Ambala, the orchestron is a 9ft tall, weight-driven barrel organ with 152 wood, tin and brass pipes, 12 graduated bells, a triangle and a four-stick snare drum. DerivativesΚΠ 1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1264/2 (advt.) Orchestrionette, round music, quite new, many good pieces of music. The lot 35/-. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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