Hey, what's that sound: Musical saw

The sharpest tool in the box can also cut it as an instrument of spectral, shivering beautyWhat is it? Those big metal things with teeth you use to carve up wood? Add a violin bow and an ear for pitch and you can make farm tools sing.Who uses it? The saw became briefly popular with cult American indie groups in the late 1990s and early 00s, with Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Mercury Rev, Eels, the Handsome Family, Black Heart Procession, Nina Nastasia, and even Dillinger Escape Plan...

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