AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Philip,

Really appreciate you sharing "the baby's first words".

As you mentioned, you still have some tweaking to do however one can  
hear that the theremin's voice is gorgeous!

I will hold off on congratulating you until you declare it "finished"  
however it sounds like you are on the road to having an heirloom  
quality instrument.

-- Kevin

Quoting kmg5443 <kmg5443@...>:

> Here is the "test bench voice" of the Keppinger theremin. My
> undeducated, no musical training opinion is that is sounds nice. Now,
> don't start critiquing the "musical" selection. The sucker is here on
> my workbench, all laid out, naked and bare to the world, wires
> dangling out everywhere, wrench attached to a temporary coathanger
> antenna, pocketknife laying on top of the makeshift expression loop,
> and lacking even a cabinet to clothe it in yet. I'm trying my best
> not to knock the two big coils over that are sitting on top of the
> bench.
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> You can hear high frequency harmonics in the background, I am pretty
> positive from the volume oscillator. Its almost a 2 Mb file, so be
> warned before you click on it.  There may be some flutter modulation
> to the thing...there is a ceiling fan going in the radio shack here
> to keep my dainty self from sweating. Us spoiled deskbound engineers
> aren't allowed to do that too often, or we melt.
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> There is obviously more work to do. Some of you may have been curious
> how it sounds. I vented to Uncle Howie in a separate email off list.
> He told me he was expecting it from me, as these things would try the
> patience of Job.
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> The file is located at
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> http://home.comcast.net/~ka4koe/keppinger5-08-22-2007.mp3
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> Philip Neidlinger
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