Orchestrion

Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music.

Orchestrion Media

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  1918 Seeburg Orchestrion, "Style G", located at Clark's Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Uses a ten-song music roll and plays multiple wind, string, and percussion instruments.

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  Illustrated London News, Sept. 20, 1862: the Orchestrion by M. Welte, of Vöhrenbach, in the Zollverein Département.

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  Welte Concert Orchestrion, style 6, number 198 (1895)

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  Welte Philharmonic Organ in the en:Technikmuseum Speyer. The original owner was en:Eugene Isaac Meyer.