(Original Caption) Photo shows the "Theremin," one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented by professor Theremin, a Russian scientist from Leningrad. Photo shows the invention as it ...

Editor’s note: Allan Maurer is a contributor to WRAL TechWire and is one of its cofounders. ASHEVILLE – Moog Music, which builds its instruments in Asheville, is updating the instrument that inspired ...

HOUSTON – Theremin is musical instrument that it is played without physical contact. You can see it, you can hear it, but you can't touch it. How is that possible, you wonder? Carolina Eyck can ...

As Wikipedia describes the theremin’s control: The instrument’s controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist’s hands and control ...

Call it a novelty if you like and I guess that would be appropriate but the theremin is indeed a musical instrument. Some would call it the first electronic instrument. Invented in 192o by Léon ...

My younger son has taken violin lessons since he was little, but he doesn't practice as much as I'd like. "Is there another instrument you'd like better?" I once asked him. His answer: "I guess a ...

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The “Play It Loud” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art spotlights the star instruments that made music electronic, from Muddy Waters' blues axe to a shard of the psychedelic guitar that Jimi ...

One might argue that every musical instrument is controlled by the body—from the strumming the strings of a guitar, blowing into a saxophone, striking the keys of a piano—but no instrument is ...