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orchestrina|ɔːkɪˈstriːnə|
Also -ino.
[f. orchestr-a + -ina1, after concertina, etc.]
†a. An instrument of the key-board kind constructed so as to imitate various other musical instruments. Obs.
b. A mechanical instrument, resembling a barrel-organ, but of more elaborate construction, intended to imitate the effect of an orchestra. So orˈchestrion [cf. accordion], orˈchestrionette, names of similar instruments. (See quots.)
1838Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVI. 519/1 Orchestrino, a modern musical instrument..shaped like a piano-forte... It imitated the tones of the violin, the viola, the violoncello, the viol d'amour, the double bass, etc. Ibid., Orchestrion, a musical instrument invented by the Abbé Vogler about 1789. 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. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes vi, Are there no Punches..Conjurers, Orchestrinas, or even Barrel-organs? 1880–1Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) 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. 1882C. W. Wood In Black Forest 115 The Black Forest is famous for these mechanical organs—orchestrions, as they are called. |