[sdiy] X-Y table amd sandviken saw!

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Karl Dalen <karldalen at yahoo.se>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] X-Y table amd sandviken saw!
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 03:51:26 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <20040328015126.40184.qmail at web21102.mail.yahoo.com>

Karl,

> > When is someone going to pick up an extra long Sandviken Saw and start
> > playing
> > it with a bow? I am just waiting for it to happend now that we reached
> > that
> > level (no, the bow goes on the non-sawtooth side!).
> 
> Tapping the sandviken saw with drum sticks works well to,
> however for best sound with bow you shold get a saw
> manufactured from the early days! They have the best
> resonance, sustain!!

Indeed, but you mean the longest release-time. This show owe to low acoustical
loss in the steel at the frequencies we play at.

For those who hasn't the foggiest about what we are talking about, if you take
a good saw, but the handle in your lap with the saw straight up, then you bend
the top end of the saw with one hand and then has a violin/chello bow in the
other hand, and then you play the saw as if it where a string, and you change
pitch by bending the saw, the more you bend the higher pitch. Then you can
modulate it by varying the bendning, i.e. pitch modulation. I wonder when they
will deliver the synths with modulation saws instead of modulation sticks! :->

We see far to little of saw-based music in contemporary pop-music! ;O)

> Since the Therhemin and the Sandviken saw has quite the
> same "hounted, howling sound" i wonder, wich came first?
> I put a vote for the saw?!

I don't know of any established history for saws, it can be a fairly recent
thing or it could trace back another 100 years or so. I wouln't place my bet
just yeat.

Cheers,
Magnus - almost about to go down and play the saw... tooth - OUCH!