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A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando ( portamento ), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin .
The Yorkshire Musical Saw Man Charles Hindmarsh , stage name The Yorkshire Musical Saw Man , is an English musical performer who specialises in the playing of the musical saw . A native of the North Yorkshire town of Harrogate , Charles studied violin at college, but gained local notability with his party-trick performances on the musical saw ...
Seesaw is a 1973 American musical with a book by Michael Bennett, music by Cy Coleman, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.. Based on the William Gibson play Two for the Seesaw, the plot focuses on a brief affair between Jerry Ryan, a young lawyer from Nebraska, and Gittel Mosca, a kooky, streetwise dancer from the Bronx.
SAW started producing underground club hits, but earned worldwide success with a mixture of hi-NRG-influenced sound, romantic Motown lyrics and Italo disco melodies with singles from Rick Astley, Bananarama, Mel and Kim, Donna Summer, Sinitta, Dead or Alive, Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue. During 1984–1989, their musical style was labelled ...
Natalia 'Saw Lady' Paruz is a New York City-based musical saw player, bell ringer, busker and film maker. She was the founder and director of the annual Musical Saw Festival in New York City and ran it for 11 years. She also organized the musical saw festival in Israel. She was a columnist of the 'Saw Player News' and a judge at international ...
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument, played with a bow. The sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a friction idiophone with direct friction (131.22) under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
Grégoire Blanc (born in 1996) [citation needed] is a French musician who plays the theremin [1] and the musical saw. [2] Biography. Early life.
Harry Fries and His Musical Saw was an early, experimental television program aired in New York City during 1932. As the title suggests, it consisted of Harry Fries playing the musical saw . Time-slots ranged from 25 minutes to 15 minutes, and it aired on W2XAB (now WCBS-TV ).