orchestrelle

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Noun

orchestrelle (plural orchestrelles)

  1. (historical, music) A player organ designed to mimic the sound of an orchestra, manufactured and used from the late 19th century to early 20th century.
    • 1912, Albert Bigelow Paine, chapter CCXXXV, in Mark Twain, A Biography: Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907:
      He had the orchestrelle moved to Dublin, although it was no small undertaking, for he needed the solace of its harmonies; []
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