Name that is ushering in artistic work? (8)

Times Cryptic #29114 | 5 Across | 2024-12-31
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CALL (name), IE (that is) containing [ushering in] OP (artistic work). Calliope was the Muse of epic poetry. Somehow in America her name has also come to mean a set of steam whistles producing musical notes, played by a keyboard like that of an organ.

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