piano wire
High-tensile musical steel
Piano wire is high-tensile steel wire, originally developed for piano strings but used in many applications requiring strength and flexibility: guy wires, springs, snares, and garrotes.
In fiction, piano wire often appears as an assassin's weapon: He was strangled with piano wire.
The phrase evokes both elegance and menace.
- garroteStrangling implement
- thinSmall in diameter
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- hammersHeavy-headed striking tools
- stranglingCompressing throat to suffocate
tune · tensile strength · stretch · throttling · silent killer · dampers · soundboard · snare drum · taut · high tension · cord · twang · vibration · metallic · octave · cutting · cheese cutter · murder
- taut thingsbowstring, drum skin, guitar string, trampoline, rubber band
- fiberscotton, wool, silk, linen, hemp
- steelscarbon steel, alloy steel, tool steel, stainless steel, high-speed steel
- wire typesRomex
piano wirethread
Fiber for stitching
yarn · twine · sewing thread · embroidery floss · dental floss
piano wirecotton thread
Spun plant fiber strand
silk thread · yarn · twine · rubber band
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