The theremin or ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox), is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist. It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
The Inventor and His Invention:
An interesting technological branch of Theramin's work led the KGB to plant a passive cavity resonator known as The Thing embedded in a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States presented to U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman on August 4, 1945. It hung in the ambassador's Moscow residential study for SEVEN YEARS, until it was discovered by ACCIDENT in 1952 by a British radio operator who overheard American conversations on an open radio channel as the Russians were beaming radio waves at the ambassador's office.
Evidence that the Goddamned commies were good at the espionage game.
Even Johnny Carson played one.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
