To add a few words to further answer Mr. Saul's question on Monday --

The special chaining technique -- where the top note of the lyric line
was chained 'punch-punch-bar-punch-punch' to aid the singer on word
rolls -- was originated on Aeolian's earlier 'UniversaL' branded rolls,
and was named, on a note stamped on these rolls, the 'Melody Line'.  I
suppose the trademark Melodee was suggested by this feature.

This chaining device also appears on some Duo-Art song rolls.  The
notes so marked were meant to be the 'song melody', and are related to
the snake-bite accented notes only by the incidental circumstance that
such notes are usually accented in popular Themodist or Duo-Art
arrangements.

The Gulbransen label and stamp was a seller's designation.  Universal
(Aeolian) apparently offered the service of applying reseller's
identification to large retailer's roll orders.  Many such rolls are
found with the names of music stores or department stores on labels
stuck on the top of the box.

Early Melodee rolls used a box label pasted on the roll leader, but
later on they adapted a rubber stamp as was used for the Duo-Arts, but
it was much smaller and simpler, and listed only the number, title and
composer.

Richard Vance