Manufacturer
QRS MUSIC ROLLS INCORPORATED
Player Piano Roll, "Elton John Medley No.3"
Date1920 - 1990
DimensionsOverall: 6.5 x 7 x 32 x 6 cm
Credit LineGift of Ms. Donna Smith, 2009.
Object number2009.016.004
Label TextInsert this roll into a player piano and the machine’s mechanism will read the perforations on the paper to play Elton John's music from the late 20th century. But the technology of encoding information on perforated paper is much older. The weaving industry used it first. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, weavers used perforated paper tapes to dictate the pattern of fabric their looms produced.
NameRoll, Music
QRS MUSIC ROLLS INCORPORATED
1920 - 1990
