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  2. WavePiston - Wikipedia

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    WavePiston is a concept to harness wave power using a long string with collector plates that move with the waves. Hydraulic pumps between the plates pump water onshore, where it can either drive a turbine to create electricity or be used in desalination.

  3. Sampler (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    If the next note (Bb2) is input the sampler will select the Violin B2 sample, playing it a semitone lower than its center pitch of B2. In general, samplers can play back any kind of recorded audio. Most samplers offer editing tools that allow the user to modify and process the audio and apply a wide range of effects. This makes the sampler a ...

  4. Piston (music) - Wikipedia

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    The piston (Breton: pistoñ, English phonetic "pist-on") is a type of oboe invented by Breton musician, teacher, and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. [1] The pistoñ is a contemporary development of the hautbois , classical and/or baroque oboe , influenced by the bombard or talabard, the traditional double reed instrument of Brittany.

  5. Category:Samplers (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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  6. List of Yamaha Corporation products - Wikipedia

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    MOX6 / MOX8 (2011) - with the sound engine and sample-ROM from Motif XS, half polyphony, no sampler; MX49 / MX61 (2012) - successor to MM6/MM8, with more than 1000 sounds from Motif XS; MOXF6 / MOXF8 (2013) - sound engine and sample-ROM from Motif XF, optional sample-flash-ROM; Motif XF6/XF7/XF8 WH (2014) - 40th Anniversary, special edition ...

  7. Geotechnical investigation - Wikipedia

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    Piston samplers. These samplers are thin-walled metal tubes which contain a piston at the tip. The samplers are pushed into the bottom of a borehole, with the piston remaining at the surface of the soil while the tube slides past it. These samplers will return undisturbed samples in soft soils, but are difficult to advance in sands and stiff ...

  8. Offshore geotechnical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Viscous drilling mud flowing down the drillpipe collects these cuttings and carry them up outside the drillpipe. As is the case for onshore geotechnical surveys, different tools can be used for sampling the soil from a drill hole, notably "Shelby tubes", "piston samplers" and "split spoon samplers".

  9. Category:Aircraft piston engines by decade - Wikipedia

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