Manufacturer
QRS MUSIC ROLLS INCORPORATED
Player Piano Roll, "Every Time You Go Away"
Date1920 - 1990
DimensionsOverall: 5 x 5.5 x 31.5 x 5 cm
Credit LineGift of Ms. Donna Smith, 2009.
Object number2009.016.013
Label TextInsert this roll into a player piano and the machine’s mechanism will read the perforations on the paper to play music. The technology of encoding information on perforated paper dates from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In the weaving industry, weavers used perforated paper tapes to dictate the pattern of fabric their looms produced.
NameRoll, Music
QRS MUSIC ROLLS INCORPORATED
1920 - 1990