music roll

noun

1. a roll of perforated paper for actuating a player piano.

music roll

noun

1. a roll of perforated paper for use in a mechanical instrument such as a player piano

Word History and Origins

Origin of music roll¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Other folks went up and down unnoted, until Marjie passed by with her music roll under her arm.

From Project Gutenberg

The holes in the paper guide the machine to make the type much as a perforated music roll guides a piano to play a tune.

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I understood that the music-roll people had had over two hours now.

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The talking-machine art stands in a somewhat different position from that of the perforated music roll.

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And in that respect it would cut out the music-roll proposition altogether?

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