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14th Oct 2019, 3:34 pm | #21 |
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Re: The Cold War spy technology which we all use - Theremin
Not 'movies' in the cinema sense, but the music for Yorkshire Television's 'Flambards' contains an Ondes Martenot.
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Re: The Cold War spy technology which we all use - Theremin
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Program aired 1 Sept 2019. I have a chip recording of it. Dave, USradcoll1, viewing the program over 50 years. |
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15th Oct 2019, 7:17 pm | #23 |
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Re: The Cold War spy technology which we all use - Theremin
The C4 documentary 'Theremin - An Electronic Oddyssey' references the theremin-glinksy biography and is available on DVD. It also features an interview with a rather exciteable Brian Wilson (beach boys) explaining how he wanted the theremin on Good Vibrations, and how it had to be redesigned (the electro-theremin) so they could hit the notes repeatably...always a band striving for perfection. This instrument is similar in some ways to the ondes martenot in that it has a printed scale for the notes on an otherwise sliding-scale oscillator.
At the risk of straying off topic, the ondes martenot was used on Barry Gray's theme for Captain Scarlet...though it sounds just like a theremin..or musical saw!
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16th Oct 2019, 1:47 am | #24 |
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Re: The Cold War spy technology which we all use - Theremin
Another "unworldly" sounding, and rare instrument is the "Glass Harmonica".
It doesn't have much of a repertoire, but it includes 'The Aquarium' from Saint-Saƫns Carnival Of The Animals, according to the composers original score. Its inventor was none other than Benjamin Franklin.
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16th Oct 2019, 2:56 am | #25 |
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Re: The Cold War spy technology which we all use - Theremin
Just prior to recording the 1963 film of Edna O'briens book last night "The Girl With Green Eyes" from Talking Pictures [Ch 81 Freeview] at 9pm, I warmed up the VCR with a couple of minutes from Blaze [Ch63] re Storage Wars which included an excitable young woman who found a 1995 Theremin and played it along with her expert valuer who had an original one from the 1920's. Hers was worth only $300 due to so many being made [he said] but she was [dimly] happy either way in the Los Angeles Wonderland. Just last weekend the Broad Sheets carried stories re "Alexa" [AKA "The Thing"] waking up and asking questions, commenting on something at random or regurgitating information spontaneously to startled "customers". It's like that over friendly person you might meet in a bar
Dave W Blaze is good for alternative science Tesla etc /history but is too American in the sense that they have to repeat everything each time which [coupled with the ads] is very tedious. 3 or more episodes of Oak Island could be done in one ' "Stop Dave-Please Stop" Hal '2001 A Space Odyssey' 1968! Last edited by dave walsh; 16th Oct 2019 at 3:07 am. |