Orchestration -- in OED?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

And _orchestrion_ is in OED, with a first quotation from 1838.

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:57:05PM -0400, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> 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
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> 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?
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > No, this sense is not in OED.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
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