If you mean the col legno effect (with the wood of the bow bounced on the strings), it is used by quite a few composers. The earliest and perhaps most famous instance being Berlioz in the Witches' Sabbath finale of his Symphonie Fantastique. A great man for unusual orchestral sonorities, Berlioz......There's a piece in the classical repertoire where the string section are all beating their instruments with their bows as a percussion effect, wish I could remember what it is. A reproduction system can't approach it.
Coming to Symphony Hall on February 2nd