More about music rolls

A character showed up with a music roll in today's reading of Anna Karenina, so my continued interest in the subject led me to a post about the history of the Lifton company, makers of all kinds of holders of things musical. Follow that link! You won't be disappointed!

I must have had a Lifton violin case once because I recognize the label:

I made a post a couple of years ago that has images of how a music roll works, but the question of how the music is able to lie flat on a music stand after it is "unrolled" still tugs at my curiosity.