theremin sounds like a cello

And this is how the EW standard with the diodes in sounds like at a different setting  waveform at 12 o'clock and brightness turned all the way to the left ie at 7 o'clock.

http://soundcloud.com/invisiblejelly/theremin-test-8

it sounds a little bit 'fury' which would be noise from the diodes maybe.

Finally here is a sample with the settings brightness all the way to the left and waveform all the way to the right.

http://soundcloud.com/invisiblejelly/theremin-9-test

"furry" perhaps?

"Full of sound and furry, signifying nothing"...?

@coalport:

That sounds like a description of the "Badgermin" that GordonC posted a link to a while back....Definitely full of sound and furry...

Ha! Collaborative genius. Thank you, coalport and mollydad!

Also, it occurs to me that one could attach a bell to the back end for me to ring. 

"A tail, tolled by an idiot!"

invisiblejelly wrote: it sounds a little bit 'fury' .......

Hi invisible,

What do you mean it sounds "fury"? I don't get it. Maybe it's just me, but I don't hear any "fury" in either the sound of the instrument or the performance. 

Hi Coalport it's furry or woolly or not bright or clean or a pure sound ie sticking extra diodes in gives I think some extra noise in the sound which is a buz (pronounced booze)which is intoxicating like the buz in Clara Rockmore's theremin...that's why those old theremins had such big cabinets when prohibition was happening in the 1920's.

"A tail, tolled by an idiot!"

Made my day!! LOL

Hi invisible. I do apologise for continuing to hijack your thread but 

"that's why those old theremins had such big cabinets when prohibition was happening in the 1920's."

And yet, strangely, no prohibition in the UK, home of Musaire's RCA. I took this picture of it with the doors open a few years ago...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8666613@N04/2263367827/in/set-72157603907186727