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Uploaded by on Aug 11, 2009

If ever a musical instrument was designed for physicists, it was this one. More at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

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  • You're such a great teacher I envy all student of Nottingham so great !!!

  • 1:00 "FUCK you don't touch it. "

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  • electric guitar :0

  • @Kurtlane Hi. There's a "trimmer" capacitor on the side of the box which allows for tuning in terms of the notes made at particular hand positions. But the only way you know where to put your hand to get a particular note is by practice. Lots and lots of practice!

    I just make noises with the theremin in the video. If you want to see how it really *should* be played search YouTube for "Clara Rockmore The Swan" or "Lydia Kavina Claire de Lune".

    All the best,

    Philip (speaking in video)

  • How do you tune it?

    And how do you know where to put your hand to get specific sounds? Where is C#?

  • @MrKitrid No

    

  • I have been wanting a theremin ever since star trek.

  • Do you really have to wiggle your hand i front of the antenna to produce a sound ?

  • Professor Moriarty, you are incredible.

  • @wreynolds1995 sounds like an 80s arcade

  • @sixtysymbols why the theremin has a single antena? how do you explain the "volume" antena (absent in this video)

  • Einstein's Bell's theorem

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