[sdiy] Calling all Theremin builders or lovers !!!

[Ingo Debus]

Am Freitag, 07.01.05 um 22:50 Uhr schrieb Tom Arnold:

> Playing a theramin, if you havent tried one before, is *hard*.  You can
> recreate 50's Sci-Fi movie stuff easily, but playing a melody requires 
> a lot
> of practice unless you are Harry and quantize it ( boo hisssssss :-)  
> ).
>

On last year's DIY meeting I had the pleasure to try an Etherwave. I 
didn't find it that hard to hit the right pitches of simple melodies. 
It's more like singing than playing a conventional instrument. You 
don't think in terms of "now I'll play a C, then an E, then a F" like 
you would do while playing a keyboard. It's probably more difficult to 
play sheet music on a Theremin.

Lesson 2 is probably more difficult: separate the movements of the arms 
to control pitch and volume independantly. I didn't try too hard to 
achieve this.

Ingo