Orchestration -- in OED?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Um, I believe dnaInfo has confused 'orchestration' with 'orchestrion', a
more common word for an instrument that can produce the sounds of an entire
orchestra.

Never mind.

DanG


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:56:43PM -0400, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > I don't have it handy -- is this meaning of 'orchestration' in OED?
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> > The gardens even had an “orchestration” — a massive type of mechanical
> > organ that imitated an entire orchestra. According to Loorya, The New
> York
> > Times reported back then that it was the largest "orchestration" in the
> > world.
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> No, this sense is not in OED.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
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