Some days ago my father in law told me, that he had seen a woman playing an instrument without touching it, just by moving her hands through the air. For me it was clear, that he talked about a theremin. I had visited several profiles in myspace of players of the theremin, and so I decided to write a post about this strange and rare instrument which is played without touching it and which has gained a certain popularity today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The theremin is a very early electronic instrument of the world. It has been invented by the Russian L\u00e9on Theremin in the 1920s. It has been used in some films of 50s to create some special sound effects in a time, before the sythesizer had been invented. Today a professioanal theremin is produced by the moog music company<\/a>. Combining the control of the theremin with the posibilities of synthesized sounds seems to be a good decision and should add a lot of new posibilities to this instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n