What is a Theremin

I was watching a video of this guy converting a Wii remote to a theremin. I still had no idea what is a theremin when i watched this video and i decided to find out more after watching another video. The mario song video.





Well, what is a theremin? according to wiki, its one of the earliest electronic musical instrument. Its played without having to touch the instrument. Created back in 1919? i think its amazing. people create so high tech stuffs back then.

I was trying to figure out how do they control the thing and i found another video teaching basic theremin. Exactly the same thing in the video, there will be 2 antenna controlled by the left and right hand. The left control the volume and the right control the pitch.

And somehow the antenna are designed to detect how far your hand is from the instrument. For the left hand, the volume side, the further away ur hand is from the antenna the louder is the volume. For the right hand, the nearer is your hand from the antenna, the higher the pitch.

I think the hardest thing to control is the distance of ur fingers to the antenna. I wonder how those people actually move their fingers to the exact note.

Some guy in youtube even have a how to make a theremin video. but i dont think anyone will know how to make it even after the video, it was fast forwarded and in the end the only think i get is he actually made a theremin. But its a cool instrument isnt it. Just by the fact the russian sent the creator of this thing to a round the world trip to showoff the russian power back in that time shows how cool the thing is.

I wonder if anyone i knows played this before.


Oh, btw, I just realized google have started putting ads on youtube. When some people were wondering some years back youtube is providing a free platform for people to upload videos and watch videos, how does youtube make money? And some people were stunt when google bought youtube for god knows how much, now we see how this kind of free platform can bring in $$.

Being a free platform for so long, people totally liked youtube and now after they have upgraded youtube to widescreen, if you havent noticed, they start to put ads. imagine the amount of $$ that you have to pay if you put ads on the most popular video, its gonna be watched by millions of people for the most popular video, worldwide. And whats better is that it is to the targeted audience, just like you put a camera ad to all videos that are doing camera review = higher possibility the audience is looking for a camera. I think this is even better than tv commercials, considering nobody watch tv anymore because people stream/dl movies or dramas. not to mention most of the those who still watch tv go away during commercials, make a coffee, read newspaper or something.

Afterall, the youtube ads are not very irritating as u can easily click it off and still be able to watch your video.


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