I LOVE musical instruments, and making music whether with an instrument or just singing, humming and yes, even whistling.
I found this video interesting. Ways you can make your own musical instruments, and most, very economically.
(clause- I do not have stock in Gorilla Glue. Seems you just can't get away from ads! Grrr...illa Glu....no, wait, it must contain subliminal messaging, too! Arghggrilla!!!!
I found this video interesting. Ways you can make your own musical instruments, and most, very economically.
(clause- I do not have stock in Gorilla Glue. Seems you just can't get away from ads! Grrr...illa Glu....no, wait, it must contain subliminal messaging, too! Arghggrilla!!!!
I've made a didgeridoo out of PVC pipe, though have never managed to get the right sound out of it *sigh* I end up getting dizzy trying.
I do have a theremin. I'll post photos of it later as it's in a closet right now. I have managed to sort of play the original Star Trek theme on it, and also to annoy the neighbors :)
It's really a difficult instrument to play, well, to play actual music. It requires steady hands and movement.
You can, however, just make really creepy scary sounds with it :)
Here is how it should sound, by the noted theremin musician Clara Rockmore-
I do have a theremin. I'll post photos of it later as it's in a closet right now. I have managed to sort of play the original Star Trek theme on it, and also to annoy the neighbors :)
It's really a difficult instrument to play, well, to play actual music. It requires steady hands and movement.
You can, however, just make really creepy scary sounds with it :)
Here is how it should sound, by the noted theremin musician Clara Rockmore-
It sounds like something between someone humming and a violin.
Or a very talented bee.
Or a very talented bee.
Biography (Wikipedia)
Born as Clara Reisenberg in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate (now Lithuania), Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Imperial conservatory of Saint Petersburg at the age of five. She studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold Auer, and remains to this day the youngest student ever to be admitted to the institution. Unfortunately, bone problems due to childhood malnutrition forced her to abandon violin performance past her teen years. That however led her to discover the newborn electronic instrument and become perhaps the most renowned player of the theremin.
Her older sister was the concert pianist Nadia Reisenberg who accompanied some of Clara's concerts.
Rockmore had several gifts that enabled her to play the theremin so well. Her classical training gave her an advantage over the many theremin performers who lacked this background. She possessed absolute pitch, helpful in playing an instrument that generates tones of any pitch throughout its range, not just those defined by equal temperament. She had extremely precise, rapid control of her movements, important in playing an instrument that depends on the performer's motion and proximity rather than touch. She also had the advantage of working directly with Léon Theremin from the early days of the instrument's commercial development in the United States.
Rockmore, as the mature musician she was, saw the limitations of the original instrument and helped to develop the instrument to fulfill her needs, making several suggestions to improve the theremin as a performing instrument. Such suggestions, like a faster volume antenna, wider musical range, and control over the instrument's tone color were incorporated by the inventor in later versions. She had a special theremin tailored by Léon Theremin himself to meet her unique requirements.
She developed a whole technique for playing the instrument, including a fingering system, which allowed her to perform accurately fast passages and large note leaps without the much known portamento on theremin.
Although Theremin proposed to her, Rockmore married attorney Robert Rockmore, and thereafter used his name professionally.
She died in New York City on May 10, 1998, aged 87.
(and what a beautiful, as well as talented, lady she was.)
Born as Clara Reisenberg in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate (now Lithuania), Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Imperial conservatory of Saint Petersburg at the age of five. She studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold Auer, and remains to this day the youngest student ever to be admitted to the institution. Unfortunately, bone problems due to childhood malnutrition forced her to abandon violin performance past her teen years. That however led her to discover the newborn electronic instrument and become perhaps the most renowned player of the theremin.
Her older sister was the concert pianist Nadia Reisenberg who accompanied some of Clara's concerts.
Rockmore had several gifts that enabled her to play the theremin so well. Her classical training gave her an advantage over the many theremin performers who lacked this background. She possessed absolute pitch, helpful in playing an instrument that generates tones of any pitch throughout its range, not just those defined by equal temperament. She had extremely precise, rapid control of her movements, important in playing an instrument that depends on the performer's motion and proximity rather than touch. She also had the advantage of working directly with Léon Theremin from the early days of the instrument's commercial development in the United States.
Rockmore, as the mature musician she was, saw the limitations of the original instrument and helped to develop the instrument to fulfill her needs, making several suggestions to improve the theremin as a performing instrument. Such suggestions, like a faster volume antenna, wider musical range, and control over the instrument's tone color were incorporated by the inventor in later versions. She had a special theremin tailored by Léon Theremin himself to meet her unique requirements.
She developed a whole technique for playing the instrument, including a fingering system, which allowed her to perform accurately fast passages and large note leaps without the much known portamento on theremin.
Although Theremin proposed to her, Rockmore married attorney Robert Rockmore, and thereafter used his name professionally.
She died in New York City on May 10, 1998, aged 87.
(and what a beautiful, as well as talented, lady she was.)