Arranged rolls, while recorded with a constant tempo, were sometimes performed by "player pianists" who would manipulate the tempo and dynamics of a roll while it played using foot pedals and levers installed in the piano (see left). These rolls were produced by arranging a piece of music for the piano to play and hand-punching each note as a perforation in the paper itself. The music was recorded at a steady, metronomic pace, never changing tempo, so that those dancing wouldn't lose their step. It is so named because these first piano rolls were mainly used for playing music to dance to. The first type of roll is the metronomical, or arranged, roll. Due to advancements in player piano technology in the early 20th century, there are a few different kinds of piano rolls, each with different amounts of information about how to play the piece recorded on the roll. Each perforation represents a note in the piece, and the roll is played on a player piano. Standard mechanism.A piano roll is a recording of a piece of piano music in the form of a long, narrow sheet of paper with various holes, or perforations, along its length.
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