Post #22362 by Shipwreckjoey on Fri, Feb 7, 2003 9:31 PM

I was sitting here listening to Capt Beefheart & the Magic Band's "Safe as Milk", and the song Electicity came on & I was totally tuned into the theremin in the song, which I have heard many times before in exotica music & Si-Fi soundtracks and I thought to myself..."where can I latch onto one of these simple but unique "instruments" today. I used to play in a band several years ago that featured theremin in some of our songs (it was a black, skinny shoebox about 16" long, made of plywood, with an 24" antenna on the left side and a metal plate on the right. It was perched on old cymbal stand adapted to support it.) Our theremin was built for us by our sound guy, who like most sound techs was an electronic whizz(probably works for General Dynamics now).This instrument was invented by a Russian shortly after the dawn of electricity and still sounds cool today!