Lots of jokes here but as a saw player myself I think this is the most impressive performance I’ve ever seen - like “Clara Rockmore of the saw” level. Your tone, pitch, control are all so immaculate. And you know just when to use the “tremolo”, subtly, to sustain. Folks cracking wise here don’t know just how difficult they is - far too many saw players (myself included) overdo what I call “the warble”. Consider me a fan - hugely impressed! Fantastic work!
In Italy we say "fatti una sega", literally "make yourself a saw" but meaning "play with yourself". From now on I will tell everybody "fatti una sega musicale", "make yourself a musical saw", which can also mean "buy yourself a musical saw". This instrument is wonderful. It has such a pure tone like a very clean violin.
Ever carry a long saw or sheet of metal? Or heard those lightning sheets "IE a thin sheet of metal" It makes a warbling sound, and hit hard enough makes a crashing reverberating "thunder-sound" >Before 1900 musical saw playing was fairly rare outside Appalachia. By the early 1900’s its popularity began to spread across the United States. It’s popularity peaked on the musical hall stages of the 20’s and 30’s. During the Vaudeville days of the the 1920’s much of the acclaim the musical saw garnered was due to its use by the Weaver Brothers, one of America’s most successful entertainment groups of that era. >Clarence MussehlIn 1919, after seeing the Weaver Brothers perform, Clarence Mussehl (pictured at right) began perfecting the design of the musical saw. His innovations included using a special steel that was much more malleable, better sustained the plaintive tones and generated more vibrato. By using thinner steel and experimenting with the blade width, Mussehl was able to create a musical saw capable of producing 16-20 notes. In 1921 he began selling them commercially for the express purpose of playing music… not cutting wood. Soon it was not uncommon to be entertained by a musician with a Mussehl & Westphal musical saw clamped between his knees and bent in the distinctive shallow “S” curve while the player stroked or tapped out the popular tunes of the day. For a few years during its peak, sales of the saw averaged approximately 25,000 per year.
my grandfather played the saw. It reminds me of a woman's voice. I can only think of how poignant it must have been to play the saw, and dream of the woman who wasn't there in those deep dark woods.
The way he pulls such beautiful tone out of the saw with the bow in full contact... it just blows my mind how even and consistent the pitch and tone are! Great job!
It really takes a master to play this kind of instrument. There isn't anything on the saw to tell you where the note is going to be, it's all out of experience. What an amazing person. I hope he inspires other musicians.
@@StevenMachuca Even more with the saw than those instruments. With the saw, the place you bow the saw also changes depending on the note. At least with the violin, the bow is on nearly the same place every time.
Great to see the orchestra accepting something original and different. This young mans feel for intonation and vibration on this saw! is amazing. I think he is from a long line of saw players if his surname is anything to go by. I heard one live in Austria and the sound stopped everyone in there tracks. The recording here does not do it justice. Cheers for the upload fae Bonnie Scotland.
I once knew a guy who tried being in a small circus playing the saw for a little while, but in the end, he didn't make the CUT. (Truth: He was very off-tune. It's evidently hard to learn to position the end of the saw at just the right angle for just the right note.)
From someone currently learning to play it, basically it's like whistling or a fretless string instrument, you just gotta kinda listen for it and eventually it comes around, and now I can be that weirdo playing the saw *in tune*, what an improvement xD
@@callumleask1053 Me too man, I just got my saw and bow today, and actually getting any decent sound from bowing it is harder than I expected. Do you have any tips for bowing?
@@masondicroce917 I've found so far that doing smaller bows and letting it kinda sing out more seems to have the nicer sound than dragging the bow up and down it, so if you kinda do short flick-ier bows that seems to work. I'm in no way an expert on this though, would recommend watching videos of Julian koster and similar people playing and kinda just imitate it until it clicks
Extraordinary. Fine pitch and tone control throughout. Very difficult piece and very well played. I particularly appreciate playing in the higher octave. Loved it. Thank you.
This is beautiful, I'm a 29 yr old man who is into War movies, and sports and not so many other cultured things, but this made me tear up a little... Brilliant!
Three years ago, I went to a party with a bunch of my new graduate school classmates. I'm not an extrovert by any means, and I have a good amount of social anxiety, but since I was at a new school in a new city, living states away from my family for the first time in my life--I pushed myself to go to pretty much anything I got invited to, at least in the beginning. At this particular party, I was tired, and in my head. I remember sitting next to a girl I thought was really cute, and I just couldn't say anything to her, or anyone. I was there for an hour or so, and was really beating myself up the whole time, feeling like I just wouldn't be able to fit in. So I left, got in my car, and cried. I didn't want to go home, so I drove to my school library because it was open 24/7, and it was midnight, and I thought maybe I could try writing the depression out of me (I was in writing school for fiction), as I'd done in the past. When I got to the library, I scrolled through RUclips to find some writing music, and I stumbled upon this video. I played it and...it was beautiful. So, so incredibly beautiful. I played it over and over, and wrote this short story about aliens and alligators and addiction and siblings. Hour after hour, I wrote. I left the library at 7 in the morning with a finished story, feeling numb with exhaustion, but accomplished. I always tell people how writing has saved my life, but I never write without music, so music is as much a part of that. After a nap, later that day, I got news that Mac Miller died, and I was naturally devastated, especially after writing a story where the two main characters were addicts. The next day, I ran a red light at an intersection because of my grief and exhaustion, and nearly hit a passing car, sure to cause a lot of damage and possibly hurt someone else or myself. I think about how different my life would've been had I got in that accident. I'll forever associate this song with those couple of days, and how it comforted me, and inspired me, and protected me. I now have a musical saw tattooed on my arm because of it. I needed this song/video to get through those couple of days
This is very beautiful. It has Violin's mind blowing sharp sound and Cello's beautiful mellow dark sound combined together. You're a musical genius. I wish I could have a talent like you. Cheers.
The bow is a fantastic invention, it can create so many unique sounds. Bowing a saw, bowing a vibraphone, a cymbol, you can bow just about anything metal
the tune/sound of the musical saw gives me goose bumps :b doesn't matter if it's played well or bad, it gives me goose bumps.. and when i get goose bumps from music it's like, i must like it either i want it or not.. :D Good job!
He is literally on the cutting edge of music
+Jsameds He's better than that - he makes even the cutting edge blunt!
literary on playing music on a sharp saw edge
I never saw that one coming.
The type of music to really sink your teeth into.
...
Its like a cross between a violin and a voice.
Eerily beautiful and captivating.
Yeah
you fell for it...
@bill oldest trick in the book
it actually is tho
@@jimreeder341 the theremin is an electric saw.
When your dad wants to you follow his footsteps and become a lumberjack but you just wanna play music
Carpenter*
Your dads a c*nt if all he wants is for you is to become a lumberjack.
Acoustic theremin
Or is the Theremin an electric Saw?
@@noahfenech8196 Sawolin?
This is the best comment so far.
Yes
exactly what i was thinking
So I just learned what a musical saw is and I'm blown away....
same XD
Lots of jokes here but as a saw player myself I think this is the most impressive performance I’ve ever seen - like “Clara Rockmore of the saw” level. Your tone, pitch, control are all so immaculate. And you know just when to use the “tremolo”, subtly, to sustain. Folks cracking wise here don’t know just how difficult they is - far too many saw players (myself included) overdo what I call “the warble”. Consider me a fan - hugely impressed! Fantastic work!
must be painful but cool!
I think people are cracking wise because it’s so unusual but it is no doubt well played and beautiful
Music has no limits. So amazing.
The1mulc1 you’re right
Saw amazing
Calculus has Limits. 𝑥 Approaches Infinity,
@@SpaokobbLimits are defined by Man. Thus it is to man to break beyond the imposed limitations.
Ever since I *saw* this, I couldn’t help but *bow* to his *sharp* skills.
it actually sounds good
i bet nobody SAW that coming
Neo Maniak Nice pun lmao
Neo Maniak I love puns. I actually lol'd. :p
Neo Maniak ΒΟΟΥΑ!
+Neo Maniak I BOW before that pun.
fr i expected some harsh noise lol
I love musical saws. They soung like a higher being singing
You should check out the theremin
@@larsswig912 fun fact: the theremin was made to mimic the sound of the saw
Another fun fact: The saw produces a very pure sine wave sound, which the theremin is designed to produce a perfect sine wave.
@@greego5952 pretty ironic it's not producing a saw wave
@@robertofratello5203 yeah ikr. A saw wave resembles the blades of a saw.
In Italy we say "fatti una sega", literally "make yourself a saw" but meaning "play with yourself". From now on I will tell everybody "fatti una sega musicale", "make yourself a musical saw", which can also mean "buy yourself a musical saw". This instrument is wonderful. It has such a pure tone like a very clean violin.
Is that an insult? :D
such a soft, gentle vioce. feels like a choir to me
His playing is a little sharp.
...Sound's pretty close to... YOU SONOVA!
He still has great chops though
Was this a joke? Haha! So funny! Get it? Saw Sharp?
I’d say it’s A little too jagged
'Saw' that one coming.
This is what happens when metal meets classical. It has a clean, cutting edge sound to it without too much.....bite 😎. I’ll see myself out now.
Such an amazing sound. But seriously, who's idea was it to just bow on a saw one day?
Cameron cassells - boredom or happy accident i guess is how it happened, one day.
Ever carry a long saw or sheet of metal?
Or heard those lightning sheets "IE a thin sheet of metal"
It makes a warbling sound, and hit hard enough makes a crashing reverberating "thunder-sound"
>Before 1900 musical saw playing was fairly rare outside Appalachia. By the early 1900’s its popularity began to spread across the United States. It’s popularity peaked on the musical hall stages of the 20’s and 30’s. During the Vaudeville days of the the 1920’s much of the acclaim the musical saw garnered was due to its use by the Weaver Brothers, one of America’s most successful entertainment groups of that era.
>Clarence MussehlIn 1919, after seeing the Weaver Brothers perform, Clarence Mussehl (pictured at right) began perfecting the design of the musical saw. His innovations included using a special steel that was much more malleable, better sustained the plaintive tones and generated more vibrato. By using thinner steel and experimenting with the blade width, Mussehl was able to create a musical saw capable of producing 16-20 notes. In 1921 he began selling them commercially for the express purpose of playing music… not cutting wood. Soon it was not uncommon to be entertained by a musician with a Mussehl & Westphal musical saw clamped between his knees and bent in the distinctive shallow “S” curve while the player stroked or tapped out the popular tunes of the day. For a few years during its peak, sales of the saw averaged approximately 25,000 per year.
@@treebeard7298 you are a god amongst men bless you
Lol
A carpenter that preferred to be a musician! He said, "What else can I do with this broken flimsy saw blade"?
and if anyone accuses him of being a hack, he could simply hack away at them
oh my god
favorite comment of all time
:(
my grandfather played the saw. It reminds me of a woman's voice. I can only think of how poignant it must have been to play the saw, and dream of the woman who wasn't there in those deep dark woods.
The way he pulls such beautiful tone out of the saw with the bow in full contact... it just blows my mind how even and consistent the pitch and tone are!
Great job!
Extraordinary!!! What control over an unmarked metal edge! Sounds like a human voice.
play "Holland, 1945"
my vote for In the Aeroplane over the Sea
That's one of the songs on the album without saws
Well I guess this is a **puts on glasses** heavy metal instrument. B)
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I don't remember but i think iron is not a heavy metal so... Try again tomorrow
@@tearsintherain6311 still, it's ... *_M E T A L_*
If he doesn't play for a while he will get rusty.
Quite spooky how SHARP he's playing.
It really takes a master to play this kind of instrument. There isn't anything on the saw to tell you where the note is going to be, it's all out of experience. What an amazing person. I hope he inspires other musicians.
You just described the violin, the cello, the upright bass, and every other unfretted string instrument.
Bubba Gurt
yeah, it's kinda a crapshoot, like trombone
@@StevenMachuca Even more with the saw than those instruments.
With the saw, the place you bow the saw also changes depending on the note. At least with the violin, the bow is on nearly the same place every time.
Great to see the orchestra accepting something original and different. This young mans feel for intonation and vibration on this saw! is amazing. I think he is from a long line of saw players if his surname is anything to go by. I heard one live in Austria and the sound stopped everyone in there tracks. The recording here does not do it justice.
Cheers for the upload fae Bonnie Scotland.
the original kills me, but this...there really are no words. What an amazing performance. I cried the moment I saw the title of the video.
All the Edgy people in the comments, Wood you Cut it out because i already Saw all of your jokes.
fuck off
I like you
*****
Look at all those people Sharpening their TEETH.
The sights of them wood shake anyones metal.
Thought you where sharp there?
Saw Hero for PS4 coming out this summer 2017.
brownman fc incoming.
literally one of the most beautiful sounding instruments I have ever heard. who would have thought this came from a tool!?
I'm impressed especially that the pitch is fairly good.
this makes me just want to cry, so beautiful, love how he's made the musical saw the main feature in a piece... just amazing
It's the most beautiful sound I've ever really heard, It's true that you can always find something beautiful in anything.
simply beautiful, Austin!
I've played a saw before, and to be in perfect pitch like this is astounding to say the least.
I love how he doesn't ruin the delicate sound by the traditional overdose of vibrato.
What instrument do you play?
A suh dude
Julian Juarbe
ashuh a suh, bruh
bencinurts so normal?
1st time I saw a saw being played was in the late 60s, couldn’t believe how beautiful it was.
That was a beautiful performance. So vivid, so clean.
That note at 0.22 seconds gives me goosbumps everytime! reminds me of ghosts
I once knew a guy who tried being in a small circus playing the saw for a little while, but in the end, he didn't make the CUT. (Truth: He was very off-tune. It's evidently hard to learn to position the end of the saw at just the right angle for just the right note.)
I mean LOOK AT IT! Looks like his arm is on a switch.
From someone currently learning to play it, basically it's like whistling or a fretless string instrument, you just gotta kinda listen for it and eventually it comes around, and now I can be that weirdo playing the saw *in tune*, what an improvement xD
@@callumleask1053 Me too man, I just got my saw and bow today, and actually getting any decent sound from bowing it is harder than I expected. Do you have any tips for bowing?
@@masondicroce917 I've found so far that doing smaller bows and letting it kinda sing out more seems to have the nicer sound than dragging the bow up and down it, so if you kinda do short flick-ier bows that seems to work. I'm in no way an expert on this though, would recommend watching videos of Julian koster and similar people playing and kinda just imitate it until it clicks
@@callumleask1053 Thanks!
That made me cry. Thank you. Absolutely beautiful!
One Southerner: I am a true southerner! I play the banjo!
This guy: Hold my saw
Extraordinary. Fine pitch and tone control throughout. Very difficult piece and very well played. I particularly appreciate playing in the higher octave. Loved it. Thank you.
I think it's really amazing how he did the vibrato by bouncing his right leg
I'm here because of Neutral Milk Hotels "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
YES. Live version of Oh Comely.
Same
And now I am going to check out Neutral Milk Hotels because of your comment. :)
SO AM I
such a lovely rendition of a beautiful song and piece of music.
shaking the right leg produces vibrato!!! this is pure frikkin genius!!...
Beautiful! My grandfather used to play the saw...
This is beautiful, I'm a 29 yr old man who is into War movies, and sports and not so many other cultured things, but this made me tear up a little...
Brilliant!
39 years
10 years ago…
@@godaughter4044 40 years now, time marches on.
I would have NEVER guessed a saw could sound so beautiful.
absolutely brilliant. I have listen to few people on hear now playing the saw. and that is without doubt the best prefomance i have heard.
And I’d just burst into tears. 😭😭😭💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
So deeply touching to listen to.. Id empty my wallet in your tipbox. You're a brilliant sculptor of sound, Austin. Keep er singing.
The sound can only be described as what an "Acoustic theremin" would sound like if it existed...
This guy played the Ave Maria really really well, this is absolute genius!
the sound of the musical saw is so unique, i love it(:
i just couldn't stop watching. incredible.
Reminds me of those myths about mermaids those sailors told people when they came back =)
Very nice these musics!!!
Three years ago, I went to a party with a bunch of my new graduate school classmates. I'm not an extrovert by any means, and I have a good amount of social anxiety, but since I was at a new school in a new city, living states away from my family for the first time in my life--I pushed myself to go to pretty much anything I got invited to, at least in the beginning. At this particular party, I was tired, and in my head. I remember sitting next to a girl I thought was really cute, and I just couldn't say anything to her, or anyone. I was there for an hour or so, and was really beating myself up the whole time, feeling like I just wouldn't be able to fit in. So I left, got in my car, and cried. I didn't want to go home, so I drove to my school library because it was open 24/7, and it was midnight, and I thought maybe I could try writing the depression out of me (I was in writing school for fiction), as I'd done in the past.
When I got to the library, I scrolled through RUclips to find some writing music, and I stumbled upon this video. I played it and...it was beautiful. So, so incredibly beautiful. I played it over and over, and wrote this short story about aliens and alligators and addiction and siblings. Hour after hour, I wrote. I left the library at 7 in the morning with a finished story, feeling numb with exhaustion, but accomplished. I always tell people how writing has saved my life, but I never write without music, so music is as much a part of that.
After a nap, later that day, I got news that Mac Miller died, and I was naturally devastated, especially after writing a story where the two main characters were addicts.
The next day, I ran a red light at an intersection because of my grief and exhaustion, and nearly hit a passing car, sure to cause a lot of damage and possibly hurt someone else or myself. I think about how different my life would've been had I got in that accident.
I'll forever associate this song with those couple of days, and how it comforted me, and inspired me, and protected me. I now have a musical saw tattooed on my arm because of it. I needed this song/video to get through those couple of days
Bravo, Bravo, encore! encore!..........Sorry, I forgot there was a replay button
Very lovely sounding to the ears.
This instrument is the real deal, no strings attached
This is very beautiful. It has Violin's mind blowing sharp sound and Cello's beautiful mellow dark sound combined together.
You're a musical genius. I wish I could have a talent like you.
Cheers.
that was so totally AWESOME!!!
Next step : play it on a chainsaw!!
+Xayraxoxo or a see-saw
+thatwhichidesire I can see his saw plainly!
Mitchell Jackson
How about a Warsaw?
thatwhichidesire Tom Sawyer?
Jesse James Dupree from Jackyl had got that covered
just amazing!!! I love it!!! Its so beautiful!
it sounds like that saw is singing... so many years this gentle instument was used to cut and destroy, and here u go.... how beautiful that is..
i need to find a saw now!!! haha that was amazing.... ave maria always brings tears.
That is the coolest thing ever...now I want one!
I came here from watching someone playing all star on a saw and I'm moved by how genius this idea is
This is the greatest thing that I *saw* in my life.
I'm speechless. That was incredible.
Wow that was amazing love this piece
This is so beautiful and mellifluous
This is so beautiful.
Absolutely magical. 11/02/19
Its unusual, but when I see him play live im just so entirely focused and feel the passion !
Best one that I have heard. Bravo.
What did I just saw?
Good one
You just see a saw.
it's see
Ornithocowian King r/woosh
Well your grammar's incorrect
"Magical!" -Rolling Stones
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
absolutely amazing
I'd like for him to play "mad world" on a saw...that would be chilling.
Destruction, construction, and art. The saw is a good metaphor.
Wow this guy is something serious! Beautiful job :)
It is so wonderful that great music is still in the culture because of a game.
this is hilarios.. Nice sound. the wave through the sharp saw.. wow.. nice.. congrat Austin!!@
The bow is a fantastic invention, it can create so many unique sounds. Bowing a saw, bowing a vibraphone, a cymbol, you can bow just about anything metal
the tune/sound of the musical saw gives me goose bumps :b
doesn't matter if it's played well or bad, it gives me goose bumps..
and when i get goose bumps from music it's like, i must like it either i want it or not.. :D
Good job!
absolutely amazing..
I used to play the saw when I was a kid in the sixties, but I only made noise. You make music!
He's on the cutting edge of a new style.
What great??? Excellent...magnificent....bravo man....all honor to you.. :)
THIS was the guy creating the thinnies on the I-70.
He's the only person i've seen so far who constantly uses the bow, which I think makes the saw that much better.
WoW this is truly truly amazing 👏
amazing! you are incredible! keep with this! you have a great talent
I thought this was some powerful fuckery, Tis indeed beautiful
+king tokin I love how your sentece before the comma and after the comma have two very different tones xD
Muito lindo..
Sou violinista.
e dou meus aplausos de pé....
Grande musico..com um simples
e taum doce "instrumento"....
I can't believe I just saw this!
This is very beautiful.
That. Was. Amazing.