Nice! Saw this one once and it seems relatively easy to make and power:<div><br><div><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/video-solar-powered-theremin-shoved-into-altoids-can/">http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/video-solar-powered-theremin-shoved-into-altoids-can/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Emily<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgb@tricolour.net">rgb@tricolour.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
Several times, the discussion of Theremin building workshops has come<br>
up and even do a small theremin orchestra. I'm keen to build some<br>
semiconductor-based ones. There are heaps of theremin schematics on the<br>
net, many vacuum tube-based. I'm willing to develop a workshop with<br>
Normand, not ever having built one yet myself.<br>
<a href="http://www.thereminworld.com/schematics.asp" target="_blank">http://www.thereminworld.com/schematics.asp</a><br>
<br>
Here's a couple of really simple ones:<br>
<a href="http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap" target="_blank">http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap</a><br>
<a href="http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/07/06/build-a-photo-theremin-from-7-parts/" target="_blank">http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/07/06/build-a-photo-theremin-from-7-parts/</a><br>
I also found one made from a Kinect, which also adds a modulation<br>
channel:<br>
<a href="http://kenmooredesign.blogspot.com/2011/01/kinect-theremin-sneak-peek.html" target="_blank">http://kenmooredesign.blogspot.com/2011/01/kinect-theremin-sneak-peek.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
In terms of lessons, I found this set of video lessons by "thereminist"<br>
Thomas Grillo:<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasGrillo#p/c/D6B0995A384C3788/0/cd4jvtAr8JM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasGrillo#p/c/D6B0995A384C3788/0/cd4jvtAr8JM</a><br>
<br>
<br>
The music some of us heard last night at the OCLUG photography SIG was a<br>
Theremin duet with Hammond Novachord, a 72-channel polyphonic<br>
synthesizer that predates Moog's 1960 monophonic synthesizer by 25<br>
years.<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfhzLl5C9U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfhzLl5C9U</a><br>
The Novachord is a very rare instrument (1000 were made in 1935.<br>
They weigh 500 pounds, use 169 vacuum tubes...), but the Museum of Sci.<br>
and Tech. here in Ottawa actually owns one that was acquired in 1977.<br>
It is not in playable condition. I am hoping to gather a group to see<br>
it.<br>
<br>
The other related instrument I learned of last night from Edgar was the<br>
"Ondes Martenot":<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot</a><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9UBjrUjwo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9UBjrUjwo</a><br>
<br>
<br>
(Oh man, I just thought of a wonderful place to do a theremin playing<br>
workshop: at CAMMAC.ca where we spend a week each summer and<br>
thanksgiving weekend...)<br>
<br>
<br>
slainte mhath, RGB<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Emily Daniels | <a href="http://emilydaniels.com">emilydaniels.com</a> | @emdaniels | <a href="http://awesomefoundation.org">awesomefoundation.org</a><br><br>
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