Laura, my daughter, and I have just finished watching an episode of the cartoon George Shrinks from 2000 which featured a theremin!
This was home-made floor-standing device created by George's father, a jazz musician and inventor. It featured a traditional pitch antenna, although in playing this seemed largely redundant, as the majority of the playing was around a plasma-ball located centrally on the top of the device. Although it was not named as a theremin it was certainly played like one, and the father commented on its difficulty as an instrument. It sounded like a theremin was used for the soundtrack.
Can a plasma-ball be made to function as a theremin antenna?
That would look so good.
Or a Jacob's Ladder - one of those things with two aerials in a V with a spark that moves from bottom to top. Could that be an antenna? After all, Spock used one to create a mnemonic memory circuit in The City on the Edge of Forever (the one with Joan Collins) so they must be pretty versatile devices. :-)
Gordon
Edit: Perhaps not a Jacob's Ladder - I've been reading about them (here (http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/jacob/)) - "The dangers inherent in the operation of a Jacob`s Ladder are electrocution, probably fatal, burns of a possibly horrific nature, poisoning of the lungs by oxides of nitrogen, possible destruction of property by burning, tripping of electrical supply probable, complaints from the neighbours."
I wouldn't want to upset the neighbours.
This was home-made floor-standing device created by George's father, a jazz musician and inventor. It featured a traditional pitch antenna, although in playing this seemed largely redundant, as the majority of the playing was around a plasma-ball located centrally on the top of the device. Although it was not named as a theremin it was certainly played like one, and the father commented on its difficulty as an instrument. It sounded like a theremin was used for the soundtrack.
Can a plasma-ball be made to function as a theremin antenna?
That would look so good.
Or a Jacob's Ladder - one of those things with two aerials in a V with a spark that moves from bottom to top. Could that be an antenna? After all, Spock used one to create a mnemonic memory circuit in The City on the Edge of Forever (the one with Joan Collins) so they must be pretty versatile devices. :-)
Gordon
Edit: Perhaps not a Jacob's Ladder - I've been reading about them (here (http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/jacob/)) - "The dangers inherent in the operation of a Jacob`s Ladder are electrocution, probably fatal, burns of a possibly horrific nature, poisoning of the lungs by oxides of nitrogen, possible destruction of property by burning, tripping of electrical supply probable, complaints from the neighbours."
I wouldn't want to upset the neighbours.
