Orchestration -- in OED?

[Ben Zimmer]

I'd wager this is a spellchecker-enabled miscorrection (Google
"Cupertino effect").

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, 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.
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 =E2=80=9Corchestration=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 a mas=
> sive 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.


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