Definition of Piano wire

1. Noun. Thin steel wire of high tensile strength.

Generic synonyms: Wire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piano Wire

piano damper
piano keyboard
piano keys
piano lesson
piano maker
piano music
piano nobile
piano percussion
piano player
piano players
piano roll
piano sonata
piano stool
piano teacher
piano tuner
piano wire (current term)
pianoforte
pianofortes
pianoforti
pianograph
pianola
pianolas
pianoless
pianolike
pianophile
pianophiles
pianos
pians
piapec
piarachnoid

Literary usage of Piano wire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1913)
"Holes are bored through the centers of the cross- pieces of the two castings, and a steel piano-wire, clamped as shown in the drawings, is passed through ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1916)
"The piano-wire must be straight and it must be firmly imbedded in the base. ... The end of one piece is attached to the base of the steel piano-wire by ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"One of the most remarkable differences between the modern and old pianos is due to the vast increase in the tensile strength of piano wire drawn under ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The breaking strength of English piano wire ranges from 225 pounds for No. 12 music wire, 0.029 inch diameter, to 650 pounds for No. ..."

5. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"At Collinson Point we had got piano wire which proved so worthless that whenever we sounded with it we lost the lead and a piece of the wire. ..."

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