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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Headless Rider urban legend - Wikipedia

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    However, the bike remained upright and continued traveling for some time with the headless rider still on board. The rider becomes a ghost and continues to ride down the same road every night (or at the time/anniversary of the death). The decapitation is sometimes attributed to falling objects from road signs, guardrails, or trucks.

  5. MythBusters (2005 season) - Wikipedia

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    Sharks can be caught using a special piano wire (from a deleted scene in Jaws). Busted Piano wire does not have the tensile strength needed to be used as an adequate shark-catching line.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Action (piano) - Wikipedia

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    (The back catch has no mark in the cut, but is explained below in connection with the "back check".) BC, is the back check which is simply a piece of wood with a thick piece of felt glued to the inner face and suspended on a wire. BCW, back check wire supporting the back check, and screwed to the wippen. The purpose of the back check is to ...

  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. List of Happy Tree Friends episodes - Wikipedia

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    At Toothy's hiding spot, behind a tree, Toothy giggles while hiding. Fliqpy, in camouflage to the tree behind Toothy, grabs Toothy's head and gives it a big twist, which snaps his neck. Elsewhere, a panting Flaky continues to look for her hiding spot. Suddenly, a piano wire comes down and it snatches Flaky by her neck, which strangles her to death.