Guns and Roses performed by vintage music machine.

That is really cool.
Back in the 80s, I worked at a Greek company that made lace.
They had some old German knitting machines that operated in a similar way with a control tape like that.
They could make lace in patterns like pictures, very intricate stuff. The tape controlled the needles that would weave the pattern on a background. That was in a different department from where I worked, but I was facinated by those machines and asked questions as much as I could about them.
The trouble was, the guy that knew all about them, barely spoke English. His name was Hercules and he was only about 5' tall.
The way I understood it though, the machine used compressed air to operate solenoids that caused the needles to engage in different ways.
The holes in the tape let air through to make the solenoids operate, when there is no hole, the air is blocked.
So the tape works like moving reed valves, and each row of holes controls different aspects of the machine operation.
In this case, four or five rows probably send air through some type of musical valves that play the melody, the other rows control the other stuff that's going on.
The tapes for those machines were several miles long and operated in a constant loop for weeks at a time.

That was actually pretty cool.