Orchestration -- in OED?

[Laurence Horn]

On May 1, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> And anyhow, a massive organ would produce not
> orchestration but the world's largest orgasmation.
>
> But perhaps there's little difference.  The OED cites:
> 1954   D. P. Geddes Anal. Kinsey Rep. 23   Orgasm
> in sexual intercourse..can be likened to the
> crescendo, climax, and sudden stillness achieved
> by an orchestra of human emotions.
>
> Although this quotation continues:
> Kinsey has likened it to an explosion of tensions, and to sneezing.
>
> Joel

Does put a whole new light on all that sneezing you hear at classical concerts…

LH
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> At 5/1/2014 01:57 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> 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 masssive 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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