Well, my pater had an orchestrion put in the drawing-room.
Bream Mortimer, who had been aroused by the orchestrion and who had come out to see what was the matter, had gone away at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off.
Then what would you do if a man insisted on playing the orchestrion when you wanted to get to sleep?
Yesterday afternoon father wanted to sleep, and Mr. Mortimer started his orchestrion just to annoy him.
With stiff wooden legs, they swept on in a never-ending race, while a greatorchestrion clamored in wild speed.
The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song.
In the French room there is the great orchestrion which Madame Patti had built in Geneva at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.
I was much disappointed, but not nearly so much so as was the orchestrion builder.
Some time before I left America I received several letters from a young man residing in the Black Forest in regard to a wonderful orchestrion which he was building and which he wished to sell or send to me for exhibition.
When he saw the accounts of my arrival with Tom Thumb at Baden-Baden, he announced his willingness to bring his orchestrion and set it up in that place so that I could see and hear it.
Unfortunately Fanny was not at all musical, so that the place of music master to the future composer fell to the lot of an inanimate object--an orchestrion which his father brought home with him after a visit to St. Petersburg.
This orchestrionwas a superior one, with a varied programme.
It would seem from his description of the orchestrion in Data zur Akustik that Vogler knew of no such device.
Here also the waiters are dressed in white, and an orchestriondiscourses music during meal times.
A large orchestrion plays from time to time during meals.
I never purchased more radiant good-will for less money, but the combined effect of the well-boiled tea and the boiling orchestrion produced many village nightmares, so the mothers told me at chapel next morning.
The floor was most tempting and the orchestrion willing.
We set the orchestrion going on a Waldteufel waltz, and I grabbed one of the young ladies for a round.
She strode without hesitation to the instrument, explored its ribs with a firm finger, pushed something, and the orchestrion broke off in the middle of a bar.
Yesterday afternoon father wanted to sleep, and Mr. Mortimer started this orchestrion just to annoy him.
Somebody appeared to have touched off the orchestrion in the drawing-room, and that willing instrument had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where Jane Hubbard had switched it off four afternoons ago.
With stiff wooden legs, they swept on in a never-ending race, while a great orchestrion clamoured in wild speed.
In the background our two friends noticed an orchestrion (which was an instrument already known to them), and all round the walls were a number of musical clocks.
In the French room there was a large orchestrion which had been built in Geneva for Madame Patti.
In the far corner from the orchestrion she would sit in a big easy-chair, and hum the air that rolled from the organ pipes, keeping time with her dainty feet, or moving her head as the air grew livelier.
And that huge, portentousorchestrion took up such an immensity of room!
One room contained a big orchestrion with many pipes in tiers, like an organ's.
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