music roll

American  

noun

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

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music roll British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of music roll

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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music roll

It's exhausting but cathartic to take one's own first experience of love or jealousy or loss and blow it up wide-screen, cue the music, roll the thunder.

From Time Magazine Archive

The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money, and a scattered flurry of visiting cards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harry Truman was the one boy in Independence who never ducked his piano lessons and, worst of all, never seemed to mind being seen with his music roll under his arm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hester's childish heart had swelled with bitter envy whenever she saw the coveted music roll swinging from some playmate's hand.

From The Tangled Threads by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Then his eye fell upon it—the music roll that had slipped quietly to the floor when her eager hand had lifted itself to touch the butterfly, opening and closing his great wings in the fig-box.

From Mr. Achilles by Lee, Jennette