Theremin players in Wiltshire/Somerset - UK

Hi guys - My name is Jabadao De Quimper and Im quite new to playing the Theremin - but I love it man!

I live in Wiltshire, England and Im hoping to meet up with fellow Theremin players in the area - perhaps for a jam or just to exchange ideas etc. Does anyone know of any Theremin players in Wiltshire or Somerset?

Far out and outta sight man!!!

Welcome to Theremin World, Jabadao.

I did this (http://www.google.com/search?q=swindon+theremin+site%3Amyspace.com) and found these people in Swindon with theremins...

http://www.myspace.com/ragdollgirlmusic
http://www.myspace.com/blackeyedog
http://www.myspace.com/tommycookers
http://www.myspace.com/albridges

Hope this helps,

Gordon

(http://www.myspace.com/beatfrequencyuk)

Cheers Gordon - many thanks for the info - I will try and get in touch with these people.

What first attracted you to the Theremin man?

I'd heard it on films like The Day The Earth Stood Still and so on, and when I chanced on some info about the instrument on the web I just knew I had to own one!

What about you?

Far out! Well I first heard it when I went round the house of a friend of mine to jam - Ondes Martenot. Anyway, he was sitting there playing, what I now know is a Theremin, and another friend of mine, Pye Hastings was playing his fingle. The sound was awesome! I joined in on my Chrysalis and it was unreal! But the Theremin made it for me - so I had to go and get one!

Your friend, Ondes, has an unusual name. I do not know many people who are named after musical instruments.

I think you might be teasing me.

I have learned from this website (http://www.whitetreeaz.com/guitar1650/instmid.htm), which is not entirely serious in character, that a Fingle is

[i]the predecessor of today's Swinette (the well-known folk instrument of the Southern Appalachians) which operated on a principle somewhat similar to that shown by a vibrating column of lead. The only real difference, other than artistic, between it and the Swinette is the placement of the mouthpiece, which on the Fingle is located slightly to the right of the bridge.[/i]

and from this website (http://swinette.com/files/Page324.htm), again somewhat in the jocular mode, that a Swinette is

[i]a musical instrument which is made by stretching a cat’s whisker across the posterior of a pig. The swinette is played by plucking the whisker with one’s teeth. The virtuoso creates tonal variations by squeezing the pig at appropriate places in the abdominal region.[/i]