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Tempo

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The speed at which music is played, usually expressed in beats per minute but for player pianos, the number of feet of piano roll that pass over the tracker bar in a minute, multiplied by ten, so that a piano roll tempo of 70 indicates 7 feet of roll in a minute.

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