上个周末气温一下高到了华氏90度左右，NY,NJ 的春天真的说短就逝？几位朋友已有
约去Ride Bike in Central Park，上午10点，在57街的一家bike rental place，每人花了15美
元，背着包，骑着自行车在Central Park 荡漾开了，阳光艳照，春风扑面，我已有
好久没骑着自行车逛公园，而且还是第一次在纽约的中央公园，公园里热闹的很，
但跑步，走路，骑车，开车的都有，好在各有其道，互不相碍，上坡下坡，好不乐
乎，不时一些专业的骑车手在身边唰唰而过，我花了大概一个小时左右骑完了Central Park
一圈，大约有12公里，一路似景非景，左顾右盼地很悠闲，也没顾上摄影，骑车是一项很好
的运动，还想着秋天可能是更佳的季节，再来纽约中央公园骑车。
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下午我们去了37th Street 上的Trinity Church, 那里有一年一度全世界范围“10th NYC Musical Saw Festival”，有来之世界各地将近80位锯琴手，我的一位亲戚也要表演他的锯琴，原来他是在上海学的拉大提琴，因他的父亲是中国锯琴的开拓者，他也津津乐道地拉起了锯琴，但我是不会被打动的，只是对这一乐器有点好奇。锯琴目前在世界上属稀有乐器，故名思意，用弓在一锯刀的背面拉琴，她的音色很特别，有时像口哨声，有时又像花腔女高音。我用Iphone 拍了一段，到也有点效果，作为留念吧。
Wiki上是这样介绍的：
What is musical saw? A metal saw usually used to cut the wood is played
as a string instrument to produce a violin like beautiful sound. The festival
website is here: http://musicalsawfestival.org/musicalsawfestivalannouncement/
musical-saw-festival-2013. One of the performers of this year is Mr. Chen,
Liming from Shanghai, China. He is also a remote relative of mine just discovered
recently. He lives in Cliffside Park, NJ.
Some artists have composed music specifically for the musical saw. The composer
Krzysztof Penderecki wrote regularly for the musical saw, including several
obbligato parts in his comic opera Ubu Rex, and Canadian composer Robert
Minden has written extensively for the musical saw.[18] The Romanian composer
George Enescu uses the musical saw at the end of the second act of his opera
ǐdipe to express the death of the sphinx killed by Oedipus. Michael A. Levine
composed Divination By Mirrors for musical saw soloist and two string ensembles
tuned a quarter tone apart, taking advantage of the saws ability to play
in both tunings
