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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of music roll1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

In the car, she would blast Spanish-language music, roll down her windows and sing until she heard: “Mom! Roll up your windows!”

The early albums and concerts of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were peppered with such Berry works as “Rock & Roll Music,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Carol” and “Around and Around.”

Viewed as both an advocate for artists and a game-changer – almost no other pop star could have made Apple Music roll over – the 25-year-old Pennsylvanian is arguably the world’s most powerful female music star.

This corresponds closely to the perforated music roll of to-day, which could be read by a practiced eye with and probably without staff lines, to the extent that if every other form of reproduction were destroyed, the melody and harmony of a musical work could be reproduced into the ordinary notation of music writing.

I feel high manhood on me now, A spirit-glory on my brow; I feel a thrill of music roll, Like angel-harpings, through my soul; While poesy, with rustling wings, Upon my spirit rests and sings.

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