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musical saws
n. (plural of musical saw English)
Usage examples of "musical saws".
He scraped his chair, mentally choreographing his flight to clear sidewalk: a buttonhook around the Iranians to cut between the regular Rastafarian debating society and two women playing Purcell's _Trumpet Voluntary_ on musical saws.
The dungeon was full of hundreds of pearly-white, translucent people, mostly drifting around a crowded dance floor, waltzing to the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws, played by an orchestra on a raised, black-draped platform.
He strained to think what the sound reminded him of, apart from thirty musical saws, but he had never heard anything else like it.
Street musicians played everything from classical guitars to musical saws.