So anyway this is pretty close to what the theremin looks like. I went out at lunch to buy headphones. With any luck the jack will fit. This is my plan: go home, spend ten minutes doing the housecleaning I have neglected all week (the family will have to settle for “tidy” rather than “spic-n-span”), plug in the instrument and spend the next 8 hours trying to get it to function, finally go to bed, cry myself to sleep, get up an hour later and rush to work.
Have fun. From playing a little with the one my cow-orker had at my last job, I can tell you that it’s very easy to get it to make horrible, horrible sounds, but not so easy to get anything resembling a musical tone.
Musical tone? Who cares :-)
The greatest theremin-experience is the trance like state that everybody seem to enter if you place them in front of one for just a minute. A friend of a friend of a friend used theremin-like instruments with disabled kids. They got a kick out of it. So do I.
Enjoy.
Oh yeah and (I’m guessing here) headphones might not be the perfect sollution. Sure you’ll get sound out of it, but if the Russian version is anything like the Moog, you’ll need an amplifier (a stereo for example) to be able to control the output level. Plus you’ll get a better tone.
And Kirsten Marie, my special friend who told me about you, said you might be interested in this http://www.musik-kons.dk/diem/digdance/index.php in connection with your post on Marie Chouinard…