Performing with the orchestrion is a primary motivation behind the endeavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

The term "orchestrion" once described a self-playing, multi-instrumental music machine that disappeared almost a century ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metheny's One-Man Band] Reference

I never asked what Mr. Gluckstein thought of the orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

And that huge, portentous orchestrion took up such an immensity of room!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

Raymond finally said to me, one evening, in the shadow of the orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

(Soundbite of music) KAHN: It took Metheny four years to create his orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And Machines: Pat Metheny's Orchestrion] Reference

Yet the album also deserves praise for not showing off the orchestrion for its own sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metheny's One-Man Band] Reference

KAHN: Seeing the orchestrion in action is like watching Santa's workshop - if Santa was a jazz cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And Machines: Pat Metheny's Orchestrion] Reference

If there's anything about Metheny's orchestrion that might raise eyebrows, it's the lack of human interaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And Machines: Pat Metheny's Orchestrion] Reference

KAHN: It is Pat Metheny's 21st century version of an orchestrion, an instrument that dates back to the turn of the last century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And Machines: Pat Metheny's Orchestrion] Reference

Evelyn disappeared behind the din of an orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight] Reference

It took Metheny four years to create his orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

A large orchestrion plays from time to time during meals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gourmet's Guide to Europe] Reference

Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

Each sound from the orchestrion comes in at just the right time.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Pat Metheny is currently touring the U.S. for two months with his orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

French bagatelle; and, to crown all, a wonderful orchestrion that goes by steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Goose Girl] Reference

I could see the right side of the orchestrion, two oleographs, hanging lamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference

I well remember his buying a beautiful orchestrion which used to be in the Picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

He calls it an orchestrion -- a collection of real, self-playing acoustic instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

"They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

Café Merkur, where the orchestrion, then a new invention, was being played for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestrion discourses music during meal times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gourmet's Guide to Europe] Reference

Seeing the orchestrion in action is like watching Santa's workshop, if Santa were a jazz musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

Why did you dance in the hall, Samuel, and play the orchestrion? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

A firm finger, pushed something, and the orchestrion broke off in the middle of a bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference

What is an orchestrion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

And then there was the orchestrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

"So is the orchestrion," said Sir Mallaby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference

"The orchestrion?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

"The orchestrion, eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

Is it an orchestrion? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East] Reference

You remember the orchestrion? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

This he called an "orchestrion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

You mustn't miss the orchestrion! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference