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  2. Garrote - Wikipedia

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    A garrote can be made of different materials, including ropes, cloth, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire. [2] [3] [4] A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word refers to the stick itself. [5] In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a ...

  3. Piano wire - Wikipedia

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    Piano string ends Piano strings. Piano wire, or "music wire", is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings but also in other applications as springs.It is made from tempered high-carbon steel, also known as spring steel, which replaced iron as the material starting in 1834.

  4. Headless Rider urban legend - Wikipedia

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    A piano wire is stretched across a road at neck height, causing a motorcyclist to become decapitated as a result of running into it at high speed. However, the bike remained upright and continued traveling for some time with the headless rider still on board.

  5. List of MythBusters episodes - Wikipedia

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    Can piano wire be used to catch a shark? Can a shark ram through a boat or shark cage? Can a shark hold three flotation barrels under water? Note: This is a special double-length episode. It was a Jaws-themed episode.

  6. MythBusters (2005 season) - Wikipedia

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    The revisit originally aired on "Myths Revisited", but it was cut from the US version. Ping-Pong Salvage, in which a sea otter managed to interfere with the experiment by stealing a ping-pong ball from the Mythtanic II. Plywood Builder, where Jamie had trouble with working with the zip line and Christine flat out refused to do the zip line.

  7. Spoilers! Why Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson' might give you the ...

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    Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, “Piano Lesson” centers on the estranged relationship between Boy Willie Charles (John David Washington) and his sister Berniece (Deadwyler), and their heirloom piano's ...

  8. Piano acoustics - Wikipedia

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    The natural inharmonicity of a piano is used by the tuner to make slight adjustments in the tuning of a piano. The tuner stretches the notes, slightly sharpening the high notes and flatting the low notes to make overtones of lower notes have the same frequency as the fundamentals of higher notes. See also Piano wire, piano tuning, psychoacoustics.

  9. Records Shattered From Northern Plains To The South As Arctic ...

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    An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. The bitter cold is pushing into the South and East to end ...