Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small portable organ; a cabinet organ, or one designed for use in a small room, public or private.
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Examples
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To the same young lady I bequeath likewise my harpsichord, my chamber-organ, and all my music-books.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Britton's small coal shop, in Clerkenwell, where Handel himself sometimes played on a chamber-organ for the genuine musical enthusiasts of London society.
Handel Edward J. Dent 1916
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In a music room, which is really the living room of a house, with viols hanging on the walls, a chamber-organ in one corner,
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905
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A large chamber-organ, a grand piano, a mandolin, and two violins, pictures on the floor as well as on the walls, many photographs scattered about everywhere, and the mirror over the mantelpiece fringed with invitation-cards, which were stuck between the glass and the frame.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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We seem to see him sitting down to dictate, weighing out the fine gold of his Latin sentences to the stately accompaniment, it may be, of his chamber-organ.
Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890
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But who is that gentlemanly man leaning over the chamber-organ?
The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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At the upper end of it stands a chamber-organ on a cupboard, with a curtain drawn before it.
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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We seem to see him sitting down to dictate, weighing out the fine gold of his Latin sentences to the stately accompaniment, it may be, of his chamber-organ.
Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870
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Finally he danced to the chamber-organ, both alone and together with some of his hosts, to the great entertainment of the Europeans and Asiatics present.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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