Orchestrion
an instrument of the organ type devised to reproduce the playing of all the wired instruments of the orchestra. The first orchestrion is claimed as the invention of a native of Karlsruhe, Baden, named Welte, whose son made the instrument more commercially possible by the use of paper rolls as reed pipes. In recent years the orchestrion has been still further developed for use in places of amusement.
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