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manual

· January 15, 2016 ·

Keyboard, especially on a photoplayer or pipe organ.

maraca

· January 15, 2016 ·

Hollow gourd or wood rattle containing small pebbles or seeds; used as a percussion effect. Certain Decap organs include an exceptionally loud maraca made of hard fibre tubing and steel ball bearings.

marimba

· January 15, 2016 ·

Large scale xylophone with thin, wide bars and tuned tubular resonators, producing a sound much mellower and more sustained than that of the xylophone. The marimba used in a few Nelson-Wiggen 5X orchestrions and the similar marimbaphone, as it was called in certain Link coin pianos, play an octave lower than the usual xylophone.

marquetry

· January 15, 2016 ·

See veneer.

master roll

· January 15, 2016 ·

Roll used on a perforator to control the punches for making production rolls. Sometimes the master roll is several times the length of the final production roll in order to provide greater accuracy and easier synchronization with the reader or sensing mechanism.

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