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musical saw

regular cutting saw used to produce musical sounds
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Summary

musical saw is a music tradition[1]. It draws 3,755 Wikipedia views per month (music_tradition category, ranking #3 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • musical saw's instance of is recorded as music tradition[3].
  • musical saw is a type of friction idiophone[4].
  • musical saw's Commons category is recorded as Musical saws[5].
  • musical saw's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Musical saws[6].
  • musical saw's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Sahansoitto[7].
  • musical saw's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Playing_the_musical_saw[8].
  • musical saw's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/S%C3%A5gspelning[9].
  • musical saw's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 131.22[10].
  • musical saw's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as National Inventory of Living Heritage in Finland[11].
  • musical saw's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[12].

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Definition and Type

musical saw's instance of is recorded as music tradition[3]. It is a type of friction idiophone[4].

Why It Matters

musical saw draws 3,755 Wikipedia views per month (music_tradition category, ranking #3 of 10).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Retrieved . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Retrieved . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Madamebiblio · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', '
    Subclass of → friction idiophone
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    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: continuous-pitch instrument"
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