A serinette is a miniature French barrel organ, also called a <i>bird-organ</i>, which plays small wind pipes. The name bird organ comes from the way that these organs were used to teach birds to sing. Serinettes existed that could play four or more different tunes.
Leighton, George C.
1870
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