•Hello MMD readers, Am running a different laptop in the studio this morning (have four of them!), so I don't have the prior issue of the Mechanical Music Digest on this hard drive, but I do believe that the URL for the "Theremin-Pianola" issue of 'The Pianola News' was listed. If not, here's the ad...

•Hello Robbie, Here's one of the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald newspaper reports on the current Theremin Festival. The instruments are receiving front page coverage right now, plus some local television spots as well; it's a well-organized and multi-faceted event! Tomorrow I'll return for the "all-d...

•Douglas Henderson writes: > The festival is the brainchild of Olivia Mattis, a Portland musicologist > who has taught at the University of Southern Maine and the University of > New Hampshire.... The University of Southern Maine seems to be affiliated with the University of Southern North Dakota (a...

•This evening I videotaped a very interesting documentary on the life of Leon Theremin, a Russian scientist who invented the Theremin in 1922, the birth of the first known electronic musical instrument. From it emerged the Moog Synthesizer and all its derivatives. I wonder if others among us caught ...

•Regarding the request for information on musical saws, there is a quarterly publication called the "Musical Saw News". Someone there could very likely help with this. Contact: Musical Saw News P.O. Box 84935 San Diego, CA 92138-4935 If the "Electronic Musical Saw" is, in fact, a Theremin, and infor...

•Hi MMD'rs -- Two items for the current thread on the Theremin: 1. To Douglas Henderson: Thanks for the interesting posting in 990701 MMD, _and_ would you please post info on "our Internet newsletter called The Pianola News". 2. I have some info on the Theremin which I think is interesting. My first...

•Hi; Anyone with a Theremin and an Ampico might try accompanying roll #70033, selections from "The New Moon". "Lover Come Back to Me" comes off pretty well on the Theremin. Fun! Mike Kitner

•There is a film titled "Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey", by Steven M. Martin. It is on a laser disk from Orion Home Video and distributed by by Image Entertainment. Orion's number is ID3366OR. The UPC code is 14381-3366-6 I don't know if it is still available, but it is an absolutely fascin- atin...

•Hi to all, On the high level of interest in keeping open the Theremin subject (a little weird, eh?), I'll add an item of my own: To the list of several movies using the Theremin in their soundtracks, add the mid-'50s SciFi classic, "Forbidden Planet." Dr. Morbius, Robbie the Robot (no relation...!)...

•[ Rich Marschner wrote: ] > Throughout the film, beginning with the opening credits and running > right on through the closing ones, the soundtrack is layered with > Theremin effects and some music, very much helping define the eerie > atmosphere of the forbidden planet itself ... In fact this musi...

•Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a web site devoted to inventions, "The Invention Dimension!" at http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html A recent article on the Theremin begins, "Just a few years after the invention of the vacuum tube, Leon Theremin invented one of the world's first and...

•As there are some people at MMD (see below) interested in the 'Theremin' instrument, I want to draw attention to the performance of the 'Theremin-Orchestra' Friday, 8th of September 2000 - 18:30 Schloss Kittsee as part of the festival "Europa 2000 - Ost.Sud.Ost: Musik und mehr" (Europe 2000 - East...

•As many of my regular correspondents knew, May began with a "quick trip" (in every sense of the word) from Maine to Miami, to pick up my restored Aeolian-RCA Theremin, which is where Reid Welch lives, the rebuilder who has the talents to do some really creative restoration. Something of this kind, ...

•Hello MMD readers, Just saw today's posting about Theremin instruments, and thought I'd mention that our Internet newsletter called The Pianola News has an edition on this subject called: "The Pianola and The Theremin: A Strange Combination". Here's the URL for that article: http://www.wiscasset.ne...

•I know that this is off topic, so if it ends up on the MMD cutting room floor I only have myself to blame. Anyway, the BBC Online web site currently contains a 'Virtual Theremin', which can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/playground/ An animated 'thereminist' is included as part of the pa...

•Since moving to Santa Rosa, Calif., I have met several folks who play the theremin. We'd like to get together some time and do a theremin/ player piano evening. Alas, all I have is a Duo-Art, and I don't see any theremin accompaniment rolls listed for it. But I remember being at an Ampico aficionad...

•Dear Brian, Greeting from New England to REAL England! The diatonic (standard) Rolmonica and the chromatic (later, rarer model) used roll-film camera spools for the music -- at least in the States. Demand for the Rolmonica "fell off" about the time that the more versatile -- and slightly more expen...

•The player Theremin got a little press a coupla Digests ago, and I'd like to offer a bit more about it. Jason Barile, web master of the Theremin home page, is a grad student in the Intelligent Robotics Lab here at Vanderbilt University. This group has done some amazing stuff, and the player Theremi...

•As a Thereminist, I can say that this musical instrument is not an easy instrument to play -- It is downright difficult! So far, not one person I know can come close to playing it even with my instruction! One must remain perfectly motionless other than movement from the hands and arms. Metal objec...

•I am fascinated to read all of the recent postings concerning the Theremin on the pages of the MMD, and I am bemused, in a good way, to think of all you guys in the US playing along to your Duo-Art and Ampico accompaniment rolls; it sounds like a delightful way to spend time. I guess that Theremins...