Musical saw

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 musical saw is classified as a friction idiophone with direct friction (131.22) under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.

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Behind the music - Bonnie Medicine

RTE 24 Mar 2025
Ever since I first saw Rising Appalachia live in Glasgow (my hometown) seven years ago, I have been completely enamoured by their skillful blending of folk music, spiritual and social justice messages into a soundscape of epic music.
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Economist 24 Mar 2025
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Cinema Blend 24 Mar 2025
... I’m bummed that one item I saw making the rounds on social media was so popular that Team Members bought all of them in one day, a vinyl record of Danny Elfman’s Dark Universe music.
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Thursdays Downtown shifting to avoid construction

Post Bulletin 24 Mar 2025
... opportunity to maintain the stage on Discovery Square through the summer, potentially offering a chance to bring music to the area that saw weekly farmers markets and other community events last year.
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Marty Callner dead at 78: Music video director who worked with Alicia Silverstone and Cher ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Famed music video director Marty Callner died at the age of 78 on March 17 ... Alicia then explained that Marty saw the movie The Crush and asked her to be in the Aerosmith Cryin’ music video ... Silverstone seen in another music video from Callner.
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Korea Times 24 Mar 2025
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Lion dance offers Gen Zers a glimpse of temple fair traditions

Shenzhen Daily 24 Mar 2025
The three female students chose to learn how to play the musical instruments — a large drum, cymbals, and a gong ... Learning to play the musical instruments, like the one called cha (镲) in Chinese, was really fun.”.
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Buffalo Rising 24 Mar 2025
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Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music

The Verge 24 Mar 2025
Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice ... If you exist on planet Earth, you know that as the guitar loop from Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which is an inescapable pop music phenomenon.
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NME 24 Mar 2025
You’re looking at people with OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia… I saw this as a river of mental illness with music being the life-raft we were all clinging to as we were flung down the current.”.
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Business Insider 24 Mar 2025
He won and subsequently began recording new music ... In 2022, Pope announced she was stepping away from country music and returning to her pop-punk roots due to what she saw as pervasive sexism and anti-trans rhetoric, Rolling Stone reported.
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Clark students end strike, vow to continue unionization efforts

Telegram & Gazette - Worcester 24 Mar 2025
... it was ending the strike, which saw student employees walking in a picket line, holding up signs, playing music and chanting protest slogans, outside the main gates of the university since March 13.
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Iconic Las Vegas Strip landmark that has delighted visitors for nearly 40 years is to ...

The Daily Mail 23 Mar 2025
Its planned demolition is part of other losses for Sin City, including the closure of iconic hotel Mirage, which saw guests such as Michael Jackson ... The Strip also saw the end of Tony award-winning musical Jersey Boys in the summer.
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They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze

AV Club 23 Mar 2025
Spock’s backup band!—but one thing that they have consistently been is fun, offering up a diverse musical palate combined with lyrics that are sometimes educational and sometimes utterly inscrutable ... How did you discover your musical bond?.
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