dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) (01/12/91)
vic spicer asks: >Would anyone know where I can find schematics for the >antenna-based [theremin] unit? An article in a "common" hobby >periodical like Radio Electronics, Popular Electronics, Electronics Today >etc. would be fine as I have access to microfilm back issues. Vic, if you have a full-featured library, with microfilmed back issues, you probably also have the Readers' Guide available... Finding a specific construction article like this might be a little hard through the RG indices, but it *would* direct you to annual or longer-period index of articles in the particular magazine... Also, be prepared to find the project uses these wierd glass-enclosed high voltage FETs, with little lamps inside! :{) Actually, if you find some good ones, why don't you post the particulars back to the Net? I'm sure a number of us would be interested, if only for historical value. Dave
cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (01/12/91)
>vic spicer asks: > >>Would anyone know where I can find schematics for the >>antenna-based [theremin] unit? An article in a "common" hobby >>periodical like Radio Electronics, Popular Electronics, Electronics Today >>etc. would be fine as I have access to microfilm back issues. The liner notes for the CD "The Art of the Theremin" contains the schematic. Delos D/CD 1014, Clara Rockmore is the artist. However, the schematic only seems to have some tube numbers and none of the other component values are given. -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307
mbl@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marc LoCascio) (01/13/91)
>Would anyone know where I can find schematics for the >antenna-based [theremin] unit? If anyone in the Boston area is interested in this, there's a book called something like Electronic Musical Instruments or some such from the 60's or early 70's, a copy of which has been among the used music books at Harvard Book Store in Harvard Sq the last few times I was there. In it are schematics for the Moog transistorized theremin from the 60's, the Mellotron, and a bunch of electronic organs and such. Most of the stuff is pretty ancient (e.g. not even up to modular synthesizers), but the theremin and Mellotron stuff was fun to look at. Marc (mbl@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) (01/14/91)
>> >Would anyone know where I can find schematics for the >antenna-based [theremin] unit? ---------- Popular Electronics did a cover story on them back in the 60-70's. The Beach Boys used one in the background for the song "Good Vibrations". John Eaton !hpvcfs1!johne
weath@sundww.Eng.Sun.COM (David Weatherford) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan11.212851.5122@ccu.umanitoba.ca> vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes: >Hello net world > A theremin, I'm told, is a primative electronic music device >controlled by the movement and proximity of a human being to its sensors. >The mode of sensing is either by antennas (capacitive effect?) or by >shadows cast on photodetectors. One sensor controls volume, the other >controls frequency of a simple oscillator. Would anyone know where I can find >schematics for the antenna-based unit? An article in a "common" hobby >periodical like Radio Electronics, Popular Electronics, Electronics Today >etc. would be fine as I have access to microfilm back issues. > >thanks > vic spicer >vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca I have a copy of the January 1961 issue of "Electronics World," which features a transistorized theremin on the cover and contains an article by Robert Moog on how to build your own. If you can't locate it, I'd be willing to photocopy the article for you (5 pages). The publisher was Ziff-Davis, One Park Avenue, New York. I have no idea whether they are still in business, or where to begin looking for a 30-year-old back issue, but it looks like it would be fun to play with (if you like winding your own coils). Dave Weatherford weath@Eng.Sun.COM (415) 336-3143