Who can tune this saw?

[Hilton Ralphs]

This is a Bahco 296 and has the following specs;

• 30 inches long
• Polished blade
• Flat back and un ground teeth
• Specially made for musical applications
• Traditional wood handle with brass hardware

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George Wilson, Ron Bontz, Isaac Smith?

[Gary Kman]

What key do you want to play in?

[Jim Koepke]

What key do you want to play in?

Maybe any of the Florida keys?

jtk

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Well not me for sure, I tried it with that copper bladed one I posted about a few days back, musical saw tuning is not in my future.

[Jim Koepke]

Do the nuts in the handle work like tuning pegs on a stringed instrument?

I was at a party once were one of the musicians had a Disston made musical saw. He tried to teach a few of us to play it. It just didn't work for me.

jtk

[Ron Bontz]

Sounds to me like George needs to get his hammer and anvil back out and properly tension that plate to the right key. But would it be the key of C ,B flat,or perhaps F#? That's the question.

[Bob Glenn]

I've heard Sir Roy plays a mean saw.

[Joe Bailey]

pretty sure this is the appropriate time to dust off an old saying:
"you can tuna fish, but you can't tune a saw."

[Jonas Andersson]

I have one of those. It's a "modern" saw so the only reason, I think, they didn't market it as a big rip saw is because it was no big market for those when they made them. More people wanted to buy a music saw then a old fassion rip saw I guess.

[william sympson]

So has anyone use this saw as wood cutting tool?

[george wilson]

I used to bug my employees in the instrument shop by occasionally playing a saw for the tourists. The trick is to bend it in a S curve and bend it harder for high notes. Not very hard to do.

I think it was funny for Marcus Hansen to tell the tourists that he thought the theremin was the instrument of the future,then complain about the tonality of the saw. Both "instruments" sound the same!! I HOPE the theremin is not the instrument of the future. It was good for sound effects in sic-fi movies. That's about it for either of them.

[Gary Kman]

I have been having wonderful results with a theremin. I am frequently found in my Lazy Boy in the evening reading an ebook on my android tablet minding my own business. Then wife's texting sound starts like some spastic runaway telegraph. After a few minutes of this torture I pull up my android theremin app and start playing an accompaniment with her. For some reason she prefers to solo so texting goes to a far corner of the house. Ahhhhhhhhhh!

[allen long]

Didn't Stevie Wonder have an album out years ago with saw music. I think it was called "Saws in the Key of Life."