melodeum

• Let Marg'et have her way, An' S'repty, you go off an' play On your melodeum--!" —  Afterwhiles
• He was the softest, glidingest, stealthiest man I ever see; and there warn't no more smile to him than there is to a ham They had borrowed a melodeum--a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set 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. —  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30
• I was scared it was vi'lets and 'Gather at the River,' without the melodeum, for him. —  Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
• They had borrowed a melodeum -- a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set 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. —  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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