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On 09/08/2024 at 13:34, Happy Jack said:

Many years ago, when my sister still lived in New York, she and her husband invited @Silvia Bluejay and me to go out for a gig. I asked to go to Joe's Pub to see Bill Kirchen, and when I noticed that the earlier act (they do two 'houses' each night) was The Theremin Society Of New York I said we just had to see that too.

 

In truth, I completely misinterpreted the listing, thinking this would be like a theremin orchestra. It wasn't.

 

It really was the Society, a bunch of club members who all played theremins in the security of their own homes, and once a year they took over a prestigious music venue oon Manhattan to showcase what they'd been up to since last year.

 

I'll say this for that evening ... it was memorable. Not in a good way, but By God! was it memorable.

 

 

 

Reminds me of some of the overly serious theremin enthusiast crowd that I've run into online when researching instruments. Did they disdain any pop music and sci-fi soundtrack use of the theremin, and use it to play classical and operatic excerpts, badly?

I suspect they wouldn't like the Stylophone theremin as it has only a single antenna and the "real" instrument has one for volume too.

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19 minutes ago, Beer of the Bass said:

I suspect they wouldn't like the Stylophone theremin as it has only a single antenna and the "real" instrument has one for volume too.

 

To be fair, having owned a two antenna theremin, to get anything other than spooky/sci-fi noises out of it you really need the volume one. 

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On 15/08/2024 at 18:44, meterman said:

Got my confirmation email this afternoon as well. 
 

I'll believe it actually exists when the theremin is in my studio and I'm actually making freaky noises with it. Then I'll put batteries in it and make it go "wheee-ooo-waouh-eee-ooh" etc...

Thought that was the Bangles..??

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30 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

I had a notification that mine was going to turn up on saturday, so there is the weekend sorted

 

 

It’s great fun. I just put mine through my pedalboard. I’m getting the hang of setting the range of the antenna but using mix mode means changing the range so that your hand on the slider doesn’t affect the aerial. 

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25 minutes ago, ped said:

 

It’s great fun. I just put mine through my pedalboard. I’m getting the hang of setting the range of the antenna but using mix mode means changing the range so that your hand on the slider doesn’t affect the aerial. 

 

:useless:

 

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Mine arrived earlier.

 

Top tip for anyone expecting a Theremin, make sure you've got 6xAA charged up batteries on hand.

 

I've just spent the last couple of hours charging batteries.

 

Only just had a fairly quick go,  I had to resort to the instructions to get the aerial working and I'm sure I could do a better initial set up once I'm a bit more familiar with the instrument,  but so far it's a lot of fun.

 

Using the slider and the button it's pretty easy to get a simple tune or bassline out of it.

 

Using the aerial is a lot more tricky, but it's early days yet.

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44 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Mine turned up, and had some fun with it, a bit too sensitve to everything but I guess it gets easier setting up with time!

I can say though in a small survey I did, 100% of pigeons don't like theramins.

 

Have you done a comparative experiment with bagpipes and accordions?

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1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

Have you done a comparative experiment with bagpipes and accordions?

 

Not the real instruments, but synthesizers playing accordians yes, bagpipes I am not sure about, I think I might have had to leave the room for that which would make counting hard.

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