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A concert grand piano has to resist 30 tons of pressure being put on it by the tensioned piano wires
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Eight of the July 20th, 1944 conspirators to assassinate Hitler were punished so severely, that they were slowly strangled with piano wire and revived multiple times only to be killed again. And all of this was filmed for Hitler to personally view at his leisure.
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The "tires" on the Apollo lunar rovers were made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire with titanium treads to keep them from sinking into the lunar soil. The tracks they left are only 1/2" deep.
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The Joker Theme from The Dark Knight (2008) included scraping razor blades on piano wires and tapping pencils on tables to produce a feeling of unease and tension.
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In 2013, a 50-year-old man called Daniel R. Ricketts from Albany County New York set up booby traps around his marijuana grow-op. While driving around his ATV, and while possibly drunk, Ricketts hit some piano wire he had strung up and largely decapitated himself.
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The strange music that plays during a Joker scene in The Dark Knight was inspired by the sound that a razor blade makes on a piano wire.
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The strange music that plays during a Joker scene in The Dark Knight was inspired by the sound that a razor blade makes on a piano wire.
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Early calculators used sound waves traveling on piano wire as memory
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To cope with new and more powerful smokeless propellants, early battleship guns were reinforced with piano wire.
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A piano wire is inserted to 'disable' the spinal cords of a live fish so it does not 'jump' during preparation
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The positive, 1939 NY Times review of "The Wizard of Oz" also mentioned the movie's technical shortcomings: ...tripped in their flights of fancy by trailing vines of piano wire and outcroppings of putty noses... betraying jolts and split-screen overlappings...(Judy Garland was barely mentioned.)
