AETHERPHON, global theremin family

I guess I was a little spoiled.  My first instrument was a piano. 
Actually, it was an ancient Steinway upright that had been waterdamaged 
in a flood, and was falling apart.  My parents got it for $100, figuring 
if I didn't take to it, they could just scrap it.  I did, and so they 
went to a music store in St. Louis and plunked down $3500 on a brand new 
Kimball upright, the same make and model they had sold to nearly every 
high school in the state.  I still have it here in my studio 33 years later.

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kkissinger@... wrote:
> Quoting Bret <echoplex@...>:
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>>David wrote:
>>Bazookaphone?  Do tell!
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>>David,
>>Thank you for asking.  I had not thought of my Bazookaphone for many
>>years, until I wrote that email the other day.
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>>The story begins on Christmas day in 1962, just before my 5th birthday.
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>>That Christmas, Santa brought me a toy plastic bazooka rocket launcher...
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>>...I no longer have my Bazookaphone, but the joy\ufffds just a memory away.
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>>bret
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> Bret,
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> Great story.  And hey, I had one of those toy bazookas!  Didn't it come with a
> periscope for looking from behind trees?
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> My first music-making toy was a little Emenie Organ -- a little reed 
> organ with
> a miniature 27-note keyboard.
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> -- Kevin
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