[Lab] Theremin building workshop and theremin playing lesson videos

[Emily Daniels]

Nice! Saw this one once and it seems relatively easy to make and power:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/video-solar-powered-theremin-shoved-into-altoids-can/

Emily

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at tricolour.net>wrote:

>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Several times, the discussion of Theremin building workshops has come
> up and even do a small theremin orchestra.  I'm keen to build some
> semiconductor-based ones.  There are heaps of theremin schematics on the
> net, many vacuum tube-based.  I'm willing to develop a workshop with
> Normand, not ever having built one yet myself.
>        http://www.thereminworld.com/schematics.asp
>
> Here's a couple of really simple ones:
>
> http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap
>
> http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/07/06/build-a-photo-theremin-from-7-parts/
> I also found one made from a Kinect, which also adds a modulation
> channel:
>
> http://kenmooredesign.blogspot.com/2011/01/kinect-theremin-sneak-peek.html
>
>
> In terms of lessons, I found this set of video lessons by "thereminist"
> Thomas Grillo:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasGrillo#p/c/D6B0995A384C3788/0/cd4jvtAr8JM
>
>
> The music some of us heard last night at the OCLUG photography SIG was a
> Theremin duet with Hammond Novachord, a 72-channel polyphonic
> synthesizer that predates Moog's 1960 monophonic synthesizer by 25
> years.
>        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfhzLl5C9U
> The Novachord is a very rare instrument (1000 were made in 1935.
> They weigh 500 pounds, use 169 vacuum tubes...), but the Museum of Sci.
> and Tech. here in Ottawa actually owns one that was acquired in 1977.
> It is not in playable condition.  I am hoping to gather a group to see
> it.
>
> The other related instrument I learned of last night from Edgar was the
> "Ondes Martenot":
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot
>        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9UBjrUjwo
>
>
> (Oh man, I just thought of a wonderful place to do a theremin playing
> workshop: at CAMMAC.ca where we spend a week each summer and
> thanksgiving weekend...)
>
>
>        slainte mhath, RGB
>
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