Theremin Lydia Kavina plays "Claire de Lune"

"Arranged by the Radio Science Orchestra"

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Music

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• Theremin
• Lydia
• Kavina
• The
• Radio
• Science
• Orchestra
• bruce
• woolley

[agsiar]

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE

[edshift]

Must be hard to play. Like a harp with invisible strings.

Props.

[m00nshine2004]

@johnsmithbsc

Science creates all the time. Or rather Scientists do if you want to play semantic chess with me. For instance, rocket scientists research, design and build rockets. Just as Léon Theremin was a 'Russian scientist' Quoted from Britannica online.

[johnsmithbsc]

@m00nshine2004 Science doesn't create, science discovers. Science may have discovered the principles of harmonics etc., knowledge which allowed the piano to be made, but science didn't create the piano. An inventor created the piano, who may or may not have had any understanding of the scientific method that lay behind the knowledge he had been given.

[samjenkinssam]

some really good stuff here

[MrJonkelp]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[yurkler]

@wsyfighter lol

[wsyfighter]

looks like Parkinson's to me

[silverskid]

Ah. Thanks, BlueCougar.

[BlueCougar]

@silverskid Leon Theremin did work on a polyphonic theremin, (where you could select additional tones with a switch held in your left hand) but abandoned the project. A theremin is strictly monophonic. The "second voice" was probably prerecorded.

[silverskid]

Is she playing harmonies at about 2:40? Sounds like a few descending dyads (sort of like double stops)? I If so, I didn't know Theramin could play more than one note/tone at a time. Anyone know?

[MrCythos]

@GrannyTenderstone of course there is a piano in the background.