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	The Musical Saw and Theremin Page-Saw
		For the saw's true beauty is not derived from its capacity to crosscut lumber or to rip through timber, but rather from its ability to cut across the boundaries and limitations of preconceptions.
		Saws, like people, come in all shapes and sizes; and at least as far as saws are concerned, size does matter.
		Equally varied from saw to saw is the quality of the steel, its gauge, and temper.
	www.theremin-saw.com /saw.htm (942 words)

	Musical saw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A "musical saw," also called a "singing saw," is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument.
		The blades of these musical saws are generally wider (for range) and longer (for finer control), do not have set or sharpened teeth, and may have grain running parallel to the back edge of the saw, instead of parallel to the teeth.
		Some saws are made with thinner metal to increase flexibility, while thicker musical saws have a richer tone, longer sustain, and stronger "harmonics." A typical saw is 5" wide at the handle end, 1" wide at the tip, and will produce about 2 octaves (regardless of length).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musical_saw (907 words)

	Golden State Ramblers - the band - joe eding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The shape of the blade is sometimes different between musical and carpenters' saws: to increase musical range, the blade is often wider at the handle and narrower at the tip.
		The saw is usually held between the knees while seated, with the blade extending to the side and slightly upward.
		The pitch of the saw is controlled by flexing the blade: a straighter, relaxed blade results in a lower pitch while increasing the bend raises the pitch.
	www.offhanddesigns.com /ramblers/joe.html (990 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: The Musical Saw
		No one knows who first coaxed music from the blade of a saw, but it's likely he or she was not alone: There is evidence of the spontaneous generation of saw music on at least four continents going as far back as the early 1700s.
		While music critic Lucille Fletcher predicted in her 1938 New Yorker article, "The Apotheosis of the Saw," that the saw would outgrow its vaudeville roots to become an accepted orchestral instrument, she has been proven less than prescient on that point.
		And the saws do cut wood: Faced with non-believers, sawyers have been known to cut the legs off the chairs they are sitting in, and many a lumberjack played by night what he worked with by day.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue45/music.saw.html (1903 words)

	MusicalSaw
		Saws of all sizes were lining the wall behind Elmore as well as some violin bows and odd looking homemade bows fashioned from yardsticks.
		One difference between a carpentry saw and a musical saw is the teeth.
		Musical saws are laid the length of the grain so they have a more brilliant tone.
	www.greenlightwrite.com /musicalsaw.htm (1517 words)

	www.singende-saege.com - The Musical Saw - A little introduction
		The Musical Saw is called "Singende Säge" in German and "La scie musicale" or "Lame sonore" in French.
		Fact is, that the "Weaver Brothers" brought the Musical Saw into action in a "Vaudeville-Show" in 1919 and toured along the U.S.A and Europe with it.
		Clarence Mussehl saw that show and listened to it and immediately begun, to inquire into the playing of the Saw and also to expedite the development of that instrument.
	www.singende-saege.com /The_Musical_Saw.html (269 words)

	musical saw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The musical saw (or singing saw) is an ordinary saw played with a fiddle bow.
		The handle is gripped between the knees while the tip of the saw is held in the left hand, giving it a double bend forming an s-shaped pattern.
		The pitch is changed by making a sharper bend in the saw while bowing.
	www.engineering.usu.edu /ece/faculty/wheeler/Instruments/saw.html (69 words)

	experimental musical instruments review page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While the first 6 tracks are more pure music with a highly original and creative renewing composition not bound to melody-lines thinking, the closer of the CD is a fine compromise between classical composition and developed earlier ideas.
		On various tracks we have well arranged orchestrations that might be too demanding to be accompanied by a musical saw as leading instrument.
		One conclusion is that I think the musical saw here has so many tendencies to move its pitches that it can either be used within the composition, or be held more steady in lower registers and slower moving notes.
	psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com /overtone.html (2961 words)

	Ocarina/Musical Saw / Erna Sack / Benson Orch. of Chicagot
		He obviously has a sense of humor (he states that "small is beautiful and that a lot of music is too long and played on instruments that are far too big"), evidenced by his program notes for this CD.
		Sawing to New Heights with Steve and Dale is another odd-ball CD containing 13 tracks of music for saw and piano composed by Steve Margoshes who plays the piano for Dale Struckenbruck's performances on the saw.
		Struckenbruck (identified on the CD as "Musical Sawist") learned the "instrument" from his father who was "a classical virtuoso of the saw." Unfortunately there is no information whatever about how the saw is used as an instrument.
	classicalcdreview.com /ocarina.html (1012 words)

	WHERE TO GET & HOW TO PLAY THE MUSICAL SAW (INEXPENSIVELY)
		When completely dry, rub the bow over a cake of rosin for several minutes until it is thoroughly covered with rosin (musical saws require a LOT of rosin to get such a big mass of steel vibrating).
		HOW TO PLAY THE MUSICAL SAW While sitting down, preferably in a straight-backed chair, clamp the saw handle (with saw in a vertical position), teeth facing you, tightly between your legs.
		Also, low-pitched notes are bowed closer to the saw's handle whereas higher-pitched notes are bowed further out towards the tip of the saw.
	www.ehhs.cmich.edu /~dhavlena/saw.htm (583 words)

	Musical Saw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Over the last six years I have taught myself to play the musical saw.
		In those years I have dedicated myself to exploring new music featuring the unique and relatively unexplored voices of this instrument.
		I use a variety of saws made by Charlie Blacklock that are specifically musical in design though esthetically identical to saws used for cutting and tearing wood.
	bellowhead.com /saw.html (87 words)

	Musical saws
		What you've just done is recreate the sound of the musical saw, an instrument popular before the advent of amplification.
		Professional saw players (they do exist; listen to the opening tune of the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", or the They Might Be Giants track "James K. Polk") use a cello bow and controlled knee movements to modulate the blade's whine.
		The Musical Saw and Theremin page is maintained by Texas musician Robert Froehner and features, among other things, musical saw sound files.
	bizarrelabs.com /saw.htm (367 words)

	Fishtank Ensemble: Instruments
		Of course the violin and guitar are also used in "classical" music, and the shamisen is also used in traditional Japanese music such as the music of the Kabuki theater.
		In the middle of the 20th century, this style came to be characterized by fast tempi, loud dynamics, and many special techniques such as (to use guitar terminology) "pull-offs", "hammer-ons" and (in bowed string terminology) left-hand pizzicato.
		In the 1920s, over 20,000 musical saws from factories in the U.S.A., England, France, Germany and Sweden (reference).
	www.fishtankensemble.com /instruments.html (2547 words)

	Musical saw player is one of a kind at the Market
		He has a degree in art education, but he hasn't found that work or several other temporary non-musical jobs he has pursued to be as consistent or as soul-satisfying as street music, so most days he can be found busking.
		From a spot either directly in front of the famous flying fish stand, or, as he prefers, at a quieter location between the tables of produce and handicrafts, Miles performs Christmas carols punctuated with bad puns and a hearty laugh nearly as trademark as the unique sound of his instrument.
		His joys are when kids start singing along with his songs and when old men stop to tell tales of their fathers playing musical saws in days long gone by.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /pop/253245_sawmusician24.html?source=rss (637 words)

	Haunted Bay - A Musical Halloween 2003
		The musical selections (featuring works from Mendelssohn, Purcell, Lizst, Price, and others) are superb, as is their placement in the program.
		Their passion for the music was palpable and it really added to my enjoyment of the evening.
		The orchestra has a big sound even though it is a smaller orchestra (I came up with this before reading that this is one of their tag lines, proving there sometimes is truth in advertising!).
	www.hauntedbay.com /reviews/musicalhalloween2003.shtml (596 words)

	CD Baby: NATALIA PARUZ: Hark! An Angel Sings
		Her musical saw can be heard on television commercials for such products as Volvo, Motorola and California cheese.
		I saw your performance at the PDQ Bach concert at Avery Fisher Hall and was pleasantly surprised.
		Natalia Paruz is a virtuoso of the musical saw.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/paruz (997 words)

	CD Baby: DAVID WEISS: Virtuoso Saw
		July 1985 marked his Hollywood Bowl debut on the musical saw in a work specially commissioned for him by the Philharmonic.
		Weiss teaches at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, at the Music Academy of the West's summer festival, and at the Henry Mancini Institute.
		The musical saw is an unusual instrument, often used as a gimmick rather than as a real instrument.
	cdbaby.com /cd/davidweiss (731 words)

	mike pope's "musical saw" review
		Knowing the history, as it were, and being an occasional part of it, I can with some sense of credulity peg Musical Saw as the second installment in a renaissance of creativity begun with last winter's Satellite Parade.
		The first appearance of samples that recall the "anything is musical" sampling experiments of Mick Jones and Don Letts in Big Audio Dynamite frame this killer groove piece, built on carefully restrained feedback guitar and cyber-funk drums.
		The lyrics of this song might make a great music video........despite its seemingly cold sci-fi subject matter.......you end up feeling something for the "ray" by the song's end........the contradiction of having some very thoughtfully played pensive music underneath the story helps........
	members.fortunecity.com /ernomusic/id134.htm (751 words)

	Play the musical saw with John Kerr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In fact, I've never met an arrogant saw player because they are fully aware that the person accompanying them on the piano, no matter how badly they play, has spent much more time learning to play than they have."
		There aren't a lot of us saw players out there so we're a bit of a novelty.
		I have a saw that belonged to my great grandfather who was a cabinetmaker, and it doesn't play worth a hoot.
	www.playthesaw.com (236 words)

	Natalia Paruz - Musical Saw and Bells
		Natalia's goal is not only to preserve the rare art form of playing music on a saw, but to also try and push it forward through the invention of better playing technique, fine-tuning the instrument, educating composers about the possibilities of composing for saw, and bringing the instrument to public awareness.
		This last part, bringing the instrument into public awareness, she does not only through performances on the legitimate stage/TV/radio but also by bringing the music of the musical saw directly to people where people are - on the street.
		SawLady caricature and musical saw logo are registered trademarks of Ameriklectic Music, and several other items are trademarked, including the one-pen-stroke sawlady.
	www.sawlady.com (912 words)

	The Musical Saw and Theremin Page \| MetaFilter
		But in dream state, for some reason, when I'm playing music with my fingers, more often than not I'm playing on some weird surface...ceramic vases, colored cardboard...the chords are the same, but there is a freerer spatial dynamic...as on the saw, or the theremin.
		The saw player told me about attending a workshop at Folklife led by a woman who'd been playing the saw for over sixty years and quite seriously informed her students that it took her twelve years of steady practice before she could approach playing a recognizable melody.
		The saw player on this session also used a mallet to play the saw resulting in weird atonal yet melodic clanking/plinking sounds.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/31924 (812 words)

	Musical Saw Free Tutorial and Sales
		A Musical saw looks just like a normal saw - but the material and tempering give it much greater volume, range, and sustain.
		Although it is possible to play just about any saw - A Musical Saw will deliver twice the range, much stronger sustain and volume and a mellower tone.
		We also carry a variety of instrumental CD's to be used as accompanyment for you on the saw.
	www.musicalsaw.com (475 words)

	Saw 2 - Musical Instruments - MusicalSpot.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Saw II, while investigating the bloody aftermath of a grizzly murder, Detective Eric Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) has the feeling that it is the work of Jigsaw, the notorious killer who disappeared leaving a trail of bodies and parts behind.
		"Saw II" is an incredible movie, a sequel that surely lives up to it's predecessor, and it's soundtrack album seems bound and determined to capture that energy.
		Sure, it's one of those cases where 90% of the music wasn't featured in the movie, and that a few of these songs were obviously put on here as promotion for X Band by X Record label, but the results are cool, nevertheless.
	www.musicalspot.com /product/B000AYEIM2-Saw-2.html (1303 words)

	Charlie Blacklock's Musical Saws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charlie Blacklock, past president of the Saw Player's Association, is still active and continues to promote musical saw playing around the world.
		The next Saw Player's Picnic and Music Festival at Roaring Camp near Santa Cruz, California, will be held on Sunday, August14, 2005.
		A highlight each year is the "Chorus of Saws", all saw players on stage at one time.
	www.vsuccess.com /musical_saws (137 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Playing the saw without a cheat is certainly possible, however the pressure on your left thumb quickly tires your hand out and will necessitate pausing frequently for breaks.
		Musical saw players go through a lot of rosin to get the saw blade to vibrate.
		This keeps the mic close to the saw at all times without the danger of banging it during your performance.
	www.musical-saw.com /orderp.htm (1867 words)

	Musical Saw
		Musical Saw events of interest to Musical Sawyers.
		Use this resource to find a nearby musical sawyer to jam with or let the world know you're available for gigs.
		The Musical Saw's role in Vaudeville and Old Time Music.
	www.mtco.com /~wentwrth/musicsaw/musicsaw.html (74 words)

	Saw - Musical Instruments - MusicalSpot.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I loved the original SAW movie and enjoyed the music score and the atmosphere the music throughout the movie portrayed.
		I assure anyone who is a fan of Saw, you will enjoy this album immensely and take alot out of it.
		During the commentary for the Saw dvd Leigh Whannell (who played Adam and wrote the movie) said he felt the movie had a gritty, muddy and rusty feel to it.
	www.musicalspot.com /product/B0002WZSNU-Saw.html (724 words)

	MusicalSaw.com
		If you have ever heard an accomplished saw player do his thing, then you are aware that the wood cutting implement is capable of producing hauntingly beautiful music.
		There is a seven-day tutorial that will teach you how to make your own beautiful music with a saw and bow.
		So you might learn on a plain saw, but you will probably want to graduate to a musical saw someday.
	www.familyfirst.com /musicalsawcom.html (319 words)

	Musical saw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of my many hobbies is playing the musical saw.
		It is not a very well known kind of musical instrument so when ever I play it in front of an audience I usually get a very interesting reaction.
		We had seen it done before and since my friend played the violin he just got a hand saw from the shop and started fooling around with it.
	www.bagabus.com /eric/id20.htm (143 words)

	Musical Saw by the Saw Lady, Natalia Paruz, in the New York City Subway System
		None of these acts can be considered musical in nature, although music is played, which may be at the heart of my irritation.
		The musical saw's vibrations lifted the atmosphere of Times Square Station to an ethereal plane.
		The Saw Lady is a serious musician, and as you can see from these photos, appears to be a nice person, too.
	www.littleviews.com /home/newyork/saw_lady.cfm (573 words)

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