In general, a sampler is any broadly representative cross-section of some collection; for instance, food products are sometimes packaged in samplers containing a variety of chocolates or beers.
In a sampler quilt, each quilt block is constructed using a different pattern. The article Pressed flower craft shows a sampler made using real flowers and petals.
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sampler, sample piece of needlework or embroidery, of silk, cotton, or worsted, for the preservation of some pattern or as an example of the ability of a child or a beginner.
It was long the custom for each young girl to work her own sampler as soon as her needlework showed a proper degree of skill.
Certain features of the sampler remained constant : the name of the maker, the date, the alphabet, texts from Scripture, proverbs or bits of verse, and a conventional border framing the whole.
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that can record and store audiosignal samples, generally recordings of existing sounds, and play them back at a range of pitches.
An early form of sampler was an instrument called the 'Mellotron' (later Novatron due to licensing issues) which used individual pre-recorded tape loops, one under each key on the keyboard.
The emergence of the digital sampler made sampling far more practical, and as samplers added progressively more digital processing to their recorded sounds, they began to merge into the mainstream of modern digital synthesizers.
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