DiggyDog's Progress

Posted: 4/30/2007 10:57:37 AM
Thomas Grillo

From: Jackson Mississippi

Joined: 8/13/2006

That's a really strange looking theremin.

How did it sound?
Posted: 4/30/2007 3:40:26 PM
DiggyDog

From: Jax, FL

Joined: 2/14/2005

It was pretty much a standard sawtoothy sort of sound but the rabnge was really compressed.

It was hard to find a note. The thing went from zero beat to squealing high in just a few inches.

It was still enough to get me hooked.
Posted: 4/30/2007 7:53:36 PM
Thomas Grillo

From: Jackson Mississippi

Joined: 8/13/2006

Wow, I never got the chance to try a theremin befor I got one. I had to buy one. 10 months later, I'm still pushin' 7 to 8 hours a day practicing. (got nothin' beter to do.)
Posted: 5/1/2007 8:49:24 AM
DiggyDog

From: Jax, FL

Joined: 2/14/2005

Well, I am sure that time spent will pay off.
Posted: 5/1/2007 9:05:16 AM
Thomas Grillo

From: Jackson Mississippi

Joined: 8/13/2006

It really has. I consider the theremin more as a full-time job, than the hobby it stared as. But, this is the kind of job that's fun.
Posted: 5/1/2007 1:42:42 PM
DiggyDog

From: Jax, FL

Joined: 2/14/2005

It's good work if you can get it.

I have had many paid music gigs but only a handful of them have involved the theremin.

Hopefully, my playing will improve to the point where I can pass myself off as a thereminist more easily and more often.
Posted: 5/1/2007 3:35:03 PM
Thomas Grillo

From: Jackson Mississippi

Joined: 8/13/2006

I'm guessing the big money will be found in doing demos, lectures, lessons, or workshops given by you, and performance you get sponsored to do in concert, rather than hired gigs.
Posted: 5/1/2007 4:05:30 PM
kkissinger

From: Kansas City, Mo.

Joined: 8/23/2005

[i]"I'm guessing the big money will be found in doing demos, lectures, lessons, or workshops given by you, and performance you get sponsored to do in concert, rather than hired gigs."[/i]

This is the first time I have encountered the notion that there is *big money* to be made in theremin-related work.
Posted: 5/1/2007 4:10:04 PM
Alexander

From: Bristol, United Kingdom

Joined: 12/30/2006

There's little "big money" to be made in music anymore. Maybe enough to live on. I think it's better that way.
Posted: 5/1/2007 4:56:55 PM
GordonC

From: Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, UK

Joined: 10/5/2005

Agreed - historically there has never been much money in music - at least not for musicians - just a blip in the 20th century when recording technology turned it into a marketable product and a handful got stinking rich. Spend a while listening to the current pop charts to see just how much good that did. Fortunately the Internet is dealing with all that nonsense and putting everyone back on an equal footing.

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