Saw Lady

Thanks for the shout out for our production of Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe @airmail.news! #NYC #theater #theatre

Get tickets to Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: Seance at the Merchant’s House before they’re gone! qrco.de/bgV2k3 This year, we’re joined by @sawlady.bsky.social Natalia Paruz playing the musical saw at every performance. [📸 of Natalia Paruz by Ignacio Guevara] #NYC #theater #theatre #music

That is a very good point! Thank you for catching it! My mistake - he just lived during the Mandate, but when he played on the radio it was already Israel. There was another sawist in Israel who played during the Mandate (he was a soldier in the British Brigade).

I saw you saw that we saw :)

As an aside, his son said Dr Neuman was born in 1882 (not 1885, as you have it)... That is what he printed in the commemorative CD cover of his father's radio performances.

Fantastic! I met his son, who was an architect and urban planner in Tel-Aviv. Alas, he passed away since. He started playing the saw in 1951, when his son brought him a saw from Paris. He later acquired 2 more saws.

What made you remember Dr Neuman, please? I met his family and I played his saws. He was a fantastic sawist - I have a recording of him playing on the radio in Israel (that was under the British Mandate then).

If you take into account that this man is still remembered today by the sawists' community, then yes, playing a saw (and he was really good at it - there are recordings of his playing on radio) was his greatest claim to fame, indeed.

Thank you for listening/watching and for your kind words!

I agree. Mine is collecting dust in my basement... if only there were more than 24 hours in a day so I could do everything I wish to do...

Trumpet Tune on 6-in-hand Handbells YouTube video by SawLady

I'm like you, only instead of bari-sax I ring bells youtu.be/D67bf5TKWlw

Thank you for telling me - I will listen again. It's an interesting soundtrack!

Thank you very much!

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Thank you very much for telling me & the link! No English subtitles 😴I found the music from it on Youtube youtu.be/c28LHl1Yg7c?... I wonder where in this movie you heard the sound of a saw playing. I'm listening to it now. Thank you!

How very cool - I did not know that! 1927 was a very cool year then. Greetings from frozen NYC (more snow coming tomorrow). I hope it is warmer in England, dear Neil💛

Abide With Me on 6-in-hand handbells YouTube video by SawLady

I rang this hymn on bells yesterday at church youtu.be/XveDBBSj074 I hope you like my rendition - I arranged it for 3 bells in each hand.

Abide With Me on 6-in-hand handbells YouTube video by SawLady

I rang this hymn on bells yesterday at church youtu.be/XveDBBSj074 I hope you like my rendition - I arranged it for 3 bells in each hand.

Which movie is that, please?

Abide With Me on 6-in-hand handbells YouTube video by SawLady

Yesterday's bell ringing at Trinity Lutheran Church - Staten Island
youtu.be/XveDBBSj074: Abide With Me, which I have arranged for 6-in-hand handbells. Accompanied by the wonderful Trent Whisenant on piano.

#handbells #AbideWithMe #lentmusic

Come Poe one out for Edgar before the show in the Merchant’s House Museum's 19th-century kitchen. Enjoy nibbles, drinks, plus performances from @sawlady.bsky.social & actor John Kevin Jones. 6pm March 27, 8:30pm March 28, 6pm April 3, and 8:30pm April 4 only! $30. Reservations required. Link in bio.

Ashes - musical saw & choir YouTube video by SawLady

Last Sunday we did a beautiful rendition of 'Ashes' on musical saw with choir
youtu.be/z2mSEge_qy4 at Trinity Church LIC.
I hope you like it!
#lentmusic #musicalsaw #Ashes #singingsaw

Playing on the Edge

Since you like saw music, may I suggest my
Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/2ezZhd...
Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/album/pla... please? I hope you like it!

I bet it was Henry Dagg!

I wonder who's CD you had. I'm a sawist, but it probably wasn't my CD you had. This is my 3rd album:
Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/2ezZhd...
Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/album/pla... I hope you like it!

Thank you for posting this! I love this museum, a real NYC gem. I'll be playing there at the end of March ci.ovationtix.com/35240/produc... Please anybody who can, show up TODAY for the Community Board 2 Hearing (on Zoom) at 5:30 p.m. to help SAVE the Merchant’s House www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Thank you for posting this! I love this museum, a real NYC gem. I'll be playing there at the end of March ci.ovationtix.com/35240/produc... Please anybody who can, show up TODAY for the Community Board 2 Hearing (on Zoom) at 5:30 p.m. to help SAVE the Merchant’s House www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

This is so fantastic!

How to play the saw www.youtube.com/results?sear...

53 musical saw players - Guinness World Record YouTube video by SawLady

Yay - Flatlanders! If you just get a bunch of sawists to play together with no preparation, even if they are good, they will not sound good together, because everyone's rate of vibration is individual. Like at the Guinness World Record for Largest Saw Ensemble youtu.be/vj5znm8LMJc?...

You are right, it is mostly self taught, but sawchestras are organized. For saws to sound good together, the individuality that comes from self teaching has to be curbed down with a common sound. How did you get into the rabbithole - where did you first hear saw playing?