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21player piano — a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll. [1900 05, Amer.] * * * Piano that mechanically plays music encoded as perforations on a paper roll. An early… …
22Player piano — The player piano is a self playing piano, containing a pneumatic mechanism that plays on the piano action pre programmed music via perforated paper rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass produced piano in the house and …
23disc — [[t]dɪ̱sk[/t]] discs (The spelling disk is also used in American English, mainly for meaning 1.) 1) N COUNT A disc is a flat, circular shape or object. Most shredding machines are based on a revolving disc fitted with replaceable blades. 2) N… …
24Blu-ray Disc — Blue ray redirects here. For the fish of the same name, see Neoraja caerulea. Blu ray Disc Media type …
25Compact Disc — CD redirects here. For other uses, see CD (disambiguation). Not to be confused with DVD. Compact disc The readable surface of a Compact Disc incl …
26Blu-ray Disc Association — The Blu ray Disc Association (BDA) is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu ray Disc technology and is responsible for establishing format standards and promoting business opportunities for Blu ray Disc. The BDA is divided into… …
27High definition optical disc format war — The high definition optical disc format war was a format war between the Blu ray Disc and HD DVD optical disc standards for storing high definition video and audio. These standards emerged between 2000 and 2002 and attracted both the mutual and… …
28Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… …
29DVD player — This article is about the electronic device. For the Microsoft Windows Software, see DVD Player (Windows). For the Apple software, see DVD Player (software). A Hyundai DVD player A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the… …
30Flying disc techniques — Flying discs (including Frisbees) can be thrown in many ways. All involve spinning the disc to give it gyroscopic stability, and accelerating its mass to a certain velocity. Without spin, a disc will wobble and fall; without velocity, the disc… …
