Orchestrion
Sign in to savethumb|right|1918 Seeburg Corporation|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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- Types
- Chamber organ
- Pianoforte with organ pipe
- Player piano
- Panharmonicon
- Welte
- Welte Philharmonic Organ
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|1918 Seeburg Corporation|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.]]
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. The sound is usually produced by pipes, though they will be voiced differently from those found in a pipe organ, as well as percussion instruments. Many orchestrions contain a piano as well.