Theremin in Seattle (Pacific Science Center)

[KevinColosa]

I've adjusted my theremin's field without touching the knobs, too, but never with plastic bottles of soda. You learn something new every day...

[jhoersch]

you actually have a volume control...in the "deutsches museum", science museum in germany, there is theremin...but just the pitch...

but just great :) nice trick with the soda

[EricLobdell]

Hah. Wow. I work at the Science Center and I've never heard that thing played well. Now I know why! Because they have the damn thing adjusted all wrong! I'm gonna send this to all my employee friends. They'll be excited to know that the thing actually could work how it's supposed to.

Thanks,

Eric,

PacSci Usher

[Zoidberg227]

You should hire him as an in-house theremin expert. ;)

[acordeon70]

Great Carport very nice played

congratulations From argentina

[dvision23]

You are a natural. You evoke an excellent tone out of any theremin.

[schlimmeh]

I really enjoyed watching the soft drink trick and listening to the great tone of the instrument and your playing. I'm glad you said hello and it will be great watching your vids.

[ThomasGrillo]

Carport! That was brilliant! I love the ending! LOL! MAN! You are getting really good, really fast! Thanks, and keep up the great works!

[imdeanam]

That's really cool! Good job! And you can drink the experiment when you're done!

[imdeanam]

Sheesh, so that's what you were doing!

[faithbeyondmeasure]

Where is this at???

[faithbeyondmeasure]

OMG! You are such a character! Love the beard! Love the ending! I'm ROTFL!

The theremin playing is awesome too! Hope you don't mind but I have to blog this! :O)

Hope you are doing well, Dan. Take care!

[choccino]

You must be wise!

I love to watch your Theremin videos!

choccino from Japan

[ooo6]

amazing! and genius! How come there are so many RCA's just sitting around in Washington?

[carport888]

haha, just the two that I know of...and I WISH they were just sitting around, I'd take 'em home!

[Thereminstrel]

Astonishing! How did you know the soda bottles would help expand the field ... or did you just try anything to hand? It's amazing you managed to "adjust" it to the right depth for you to play .. and when you do it sounds great!

[carport888]

Thanks! Anything with capacitance will expand the field. That's why it's not recommended to play by a wall. It would be nicer to have a pitch knob, but this works in a pinch. I also tried an umbrella, camera case, and various wires, all of which worked to some extent. :)

I wish it were at the right depth for my normal range, but alas, it was too wide. Luckily, too wide is better than too thin, in this case. I just had to compensate, which is partly why some of the notes aren't dead-on.