piano wire

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   thin steel wire of high tensile strength

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Questions about piano wire

What does piano wire mean?

piano wire means "thin steel wire of high tensile strength".

Is piano wire a common word?

piano wire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.