melotrope

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  1. A piano fitted with a mechanical device for automatically reproducing a piece of music by means of a melograph stencil. The melotrope is merely mechanical in its operation, and is intended, as far as possible, to imitate the motion of the fingers in playing upon the keys of the instrument. Sci. Amer., N.S., [LIX. 376.

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  1. from Greek μέλος, song, + τροπή, a turn, turning, from τρέπειν, turn.
 

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