[sdiy] X-Y table amd sandviken saw!

[harrybissell]

I dont think that is a good enough explanation of the technique...

Bend the saw into an S shaped curve...  then bowing or hitting
with a mallet will give the desired sound.

A single bend in the saw makes almost no sound

H^) harry

In prehistorc days we used this instead of theremin... of course we had to
dig the ore by hand, and make our own furnaces fired with coal...   :^P

Magnus Danielson wrote:

> 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!