harmonicons

The _gamelan_, or set of native band instruments, has one stringed instrument, several flageolets, a number of wood and metal harmonicons and inverted bronze bowls, all played with mallets: there are also gongs of various sizes, bells and a drum.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

One house on stilts is fitted up with a complete equipment of musical instruments, the wooden and brass harmonicons with bars or inverted pans resting upon strings and beaten with mallets.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

Exposition is a wooden harmonicon with twenty bars, and seven bronze harmonicons with bars varying greatly in size and shape, and consequently in tone, and in number from eight to twenty-one in an instrument.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

And I had come to the conclusion that it would cost more time and effort to disrupt the woman's "disabilities" attachment from the legal and political harmonicons of the old States, than it would to secure vantage ground for legal and political equality in the new.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

This, then, was the ante-reception court; and I might have taken possession of the hut, in which musicians were playing and singing on large nine-stringed harps, like the Nubian tambira, accompanied by harmonicons.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

All the huts were full of women, save those kept as waiting-rooms; where drums and harmonicons were played for amusement.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

All the Wagungu talked in whispers, and nothing was heard but the never-ceasing harps and harmonicons.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Milele, flute-players; Mukonderi, clarionet-players; also players on wooden harmonicons and lap-harps, to which the players sing accompaniments; and, lastly, men who whistle on their fingers -- for music is half the amusement of these courts.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845