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   Alpha to All   
   Re: Theremin On Smile DVD   
   20 Nov 05 01:44:49   
   
   XPost: alt.music.makers.theremin, alt.video.dvd, rec.music.artists.beach-boys   
   From: none@none.net   
      
   "thesonoftruth"  wrote in message   
   news:1132477466.718393.68960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Alpha wrote:   
   >> "thesonoftruth"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1132469257.094578.201950@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >   
   >> > Alpha wrote:   
   >> >> "thesonoftruth"  wrote in message   
   >> >> news:1132375327.020630.156560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > Jan Dean wrote:   
   >> >> >> TODD TAMANEND CLARK wrote:   
   >> >> >> > How much theremin usage is there on the "Brian Wilson   
   >> >> >> > Presents Smile" DVD?   
   >> >> >> >   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >> None.   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >> The thingy on Good Vibrations isn't a REAL theremin.   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> > I've read many arguments regarding this, but there is video footage   
   >> >> > of   
   >> >> > Mike Love using a theremin leg, as well as later ones with the tone   
   >> >> > strip.   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >> Try Lothar and the Hand People.   
   >> >> > Excellent!   
   >> >> >   
   >> >>   
   >> >> It is NOT a theremin.  It is an electro-theremin aka Tannerin,   
   >> >> invented   
   >> >> by   
   >> >> Paul Tanner of UCLA.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> If you see the actual videos of Good Vibrations, there is no theremin.   
   >> >> It   
   >> >> is a ribbon-controlled device.   
   >> >   
   >> > Oh!  I must have been looking at a FAKE video. The guy in the stocking   
   >> > cap was a dead ringer for Mike Love.   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> Oh!  You must have a fake brain.   
   >   
   > You're talking about "the video" and then you cut to a quote about the   
   > original recording. I do know what a frigging Theremin looks like.   
   >>   
   >> http://www.tompolk.com/Tannerin/Tannerin.html   
   >   
      
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