Picture of the Month Gallery
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November 2004 - James Lindsay
Noted thereminist Peter Pringle sent us this photo of the son of one of his relatives playing his RCA theremin, Goldie. Peter writes:
This summer some relatives from the Province of New Brunswick visited
my farm for a few days and their son, James Lindsay, fell in love with
the theremin. That's not hard to understand, James is 13-years-old and
immediately realized that the theremin is the coolest instrument ever
invented.
I took a photo of James playing Julius Goldberg's RCA theremin (that's
the one with the lightning bolt antennas) and I thought it might make a
fun "THEREMIN PHOTO OF THE MONTH".
Thanks Peter! And welcome to the theremin, James!
September/October 2004 - Billy Sugarfix
This month's picture comes from Billy Sugarfix, a thereminist from the Chapel Hill, NC area. He plays in the area both as Billy Sugarfix and in the new band, Evil Wiener.
June 2004 - David Hunter's Homemade Theremin
Hailing from Canada, David has sent us a great photo of his home made "copper cylinder" theremin.
He offers these notes:
The main theremin design is Art Harrison's 126 tube theremin. I obtained the
12au7 vacuum tubes from "thetubestore.com" , electronic components from
DigiKey, and the small inductors from Art Harrison's company. I would like to
say that Art Harrison's design is very stable and works beautifully.
I changed or added:
1) large vertical copper cylinder (made from printed circuit board copper
foil) with a large diameter so that the pitch response would become "more
linear and stretched out" with hand spacing. Inside the copper cylinder is a
large inductor (~20 mH wound on plastic plumbing pipe) connected in series
with the copper cylinder in a further attempt at stretching the spacing
between the notes.
2) wooden case is built from pine.
3) The power supply in base uses Hammond transformers and the power and audio
signal is routed to/from theremin circuit inside plumbing pipes.
4) speaker in base is powered using a National Semiconductor LM1875 audio
power amplifier chip
January/February 2004 - Max Baars' Silicon Chip Theremin
Max Baars of the excellent technical theremin website Maxies Theremin Pages sent us this photo of a "silicon chip theremin" he made some modifications to. That's his daughter, Janneke, demonstrating it for us. Thanks Max!
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