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  2. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    Optical discs are most commonly used for digital preservation, storing music (particularly for use in a CD player), video (such as for use in a Blu-ray player), or data and programs for personal computers (PC), as well as offline hard copy data distribution due to lower per-unit prices than other types of media.

  3. Optical instrument - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of some of the optical devices available for laboratory work in England in 1858. An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic properties.

  4. Bonang - Wikipedia

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    The bonang is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. [1] It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called "kettles" or "pots") placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame (rancak), either one or two rows wide.

  5. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    Enhanced Music CD, also known as CD Extra or CD Plus, is a format that combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc by putting audio tracks in a first session and data in a second session. It was developed by Philips and Sony, and it is defined in the Blue Book .

  6. Check weigher - Wikipedia

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    There are several tolerance methods: . The traditional "minimum weight" system where weights below a specified weight are rejected. Normally the minimum weight is the weight that is printed on the pack or a weight level that exceeds that to allow for weight losses after production such as evaporation of commodities that have a moisture content.

  7. Optical music recognition - Wikipedia

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    Optical music recognition (OMR) is a field of research that investigates how to computationally read musical notation in documents. [1] The goal of OMR is to teach the computer to read and interpret sheet music and produce a machine-readable version of the written music score.

  8. Handpan - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the term found its way into discussions in the now-defunct Hang-Music Forum on the Internet. [3] The successor of this forum was founded in 2009 and was called handpan.org. [ 4 ] In this way, the expression handpan found wide circulation as a new generic term for this group of instruments.

  9. Angklung - Wikipedia

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    The tuning used is diatonic, according to the western music system, and can even be presented in an orchestral form. [9] In line with music theory, the angklung padaeng is divided into two groups: the melodic angklung and the akompanimen angklung. A melody angklung specifically consists of two sound tubes with a pitch difference of one octave.