melodeum

English edit

melodeum

(music) A small keyboard organ.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 272:
  They had borrowed a melodeum—a sick one; and when everything was ready, a young woman set^[sic] down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.