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Ryder Cooley

Sep 18, 2026

14:52
Yeah, exactly.
14:52
But, uh, That was considered the working person's violin.
14:59
So in Appalachian music and in a lot of Eastern European folk music, if you couldn't afford a violin, you just figure out how to make a saw sound really good, which...
15:12
You can.
15:13
It's by ear and it takes some time because it's fretless and you have to figure out how to get the right bend of the tool and pull the bow in the right place.
15:30
But once you get the feeling for it, it's really fun and liberating and it's a multi-purpose instrument that has other uses too.
15:40
Yeah.
17:04
It is constant motion.

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