The Tannerin - Alternative Theremin Music

The Tannerin - Alternative Theremin Music

Today people call just about anything a theremin. No one I know of has defined what characteristics it should have. Start with the proper sound.

Texas Michael is your interest in theremin noise or theremin music? You are looking for something, how about this?

Paul Tanner and his Paul's Box was more theremin like than many reproductions today that miss the point in the work of Lev Sergeyevich. The theremin is "not" suppose to sound like a childs cheap keyboard note for note, rather it should flow in sound like no other instrument.

That lady on the cover was very controversial in its day. LOL

Paul was my neighbor for many years.   Good Vibrations .wav  

Christopher  

"Paul Tanner and his Paul's Box was more theremin like than many reproductions today that miss the point in the work of Lev Sergeyevich."  - Christopher

You have got to be kidding me.  For someone who obsesses over Theremin pedigrees, the Tannerin is a Theremin in partial name only ("Electro-Theremin").  It's electronic sounding and can gliss, so the uninformed often mistake it for a Theremin in recordings, but it's absolutely nothing like a Theremin in terms of tone generation, timbre, the way it is played, etc.:

I'm sure if Lev meant to put an oscillator in a box with a string he could have easily done so, but, you know, he didn't.

"Amazing how people are always definitely sure dead people will agree with their views. No one is ever definitely sure a dead person will think they're full of shit."  - Shalimar