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metrostyle|ˈmɛtrəstaɪl|
[f. Gr. µέτρον measure + style n.]
A device for regulating the speed of a mechanical piano. (Now disused.)
1904E. Newlandsmith Temple of Art 152 A totally wrong rendering of the work..is obviated in the Pianola by an apparatus called the ‘metrostyle’. By means of following with the metrostyle pointer a certain line drawn on the paper music-roll [etc.]. 1907World 16 July 140/2 The Model ‘K’ is a pianola equipped with the Metrostyle. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay i. ii. 76 There was a different grand piano with a painted lid and a metrostyle pianola.
Hence ˈmetrostyle v. trans. and intr., to regulate the speed of (a mechanical piano roll) by a metrostyle; to employ a metrostyle.
1908G. Kobbé Pianolist ii. 31 Grieg—here are a couple of rolls from his ‘Peer Gynt’ suite metrostyled by himself. 1920E. Newman Piano-Player 147 The roll [of the piano-player] should be metrostyled by some artist who knows the work thoroughly. Ibid. 148 Careful metrostyling would no doubt do away with the necessity for most of the time signs. |