WHAT IS A YOUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ?
Uncle Howie
It has been far to long since anyone has posted a message to Levnet, so I will break the (melting, I hope) ice and kick off this session with a question I posited to my son and his lady friend, both of whom play the trumpet.
I asked them, "What is the instrument that you play/"
They both replied, as I assumed they would. that they each played a trumpet.
I said that they did not.
They looked puzzled at first, but then the young lady laughed and said, "I get it".
My son looked puzzled, then he too woke up to what I meant and made a clear, crisp buzzing sound with his lips.
Think about it friends, What are the instruments in a symphony orchestra, and what is the "thing" that generates the initial sound for each of them.
Most physical instruments are mostly sound modifiers and amplifiers of the initial sound generating source.
In the clarinet, oboe, and saxophone the vibrating reed is the generator.
The violin, cello, bass, guitar, and piano, the vibrating string.
In a pipe organ, it is a vibrating column of air.
In a nutshell, something must vibrate to become musical.
Now, here is the question I pose to you....What is the true sound generator for the theremin? What is its "vocal chords"?
I say it is the vibrating (sinusoidal waves) chains of electrons.
Any thoughts, or do you all want to go back to sleep?
Uncle Howie
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Uncle Howie
You participate in witchcraft?
By your own admission you engage in the dark art of magic. My friends at the Inquisition will be most interested in your confession.
Prepare the steak!
No, you idiots, not the steak....the stake.
You just can.t get good help these days!
Now, where the hell are my matches?
Uncle Howie
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On 09/06/2015 10:49, 'Uncle Howie' via LevNet wrote:
> Now, here is the question I pose to you....What is the true sound
> generator for the theremin? What is its "vocal chords"?
you better]. it's a matter of how far back you want to go regarding
generation ... and what constitutes "an instrument."
in this way of thinking, it is each of us who is the real instrument.
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Peter Pringle
Uncle Howie wrote: “………Now, here is the question I pose to you....What is the true sound generator for the theremin? What is its "vocal chords"? I say it is the vibrating (sinusoidal waves) chains of electrons. Any thoughts, or do you all want to go back to sleep?”
Unk,
First of all, people are not sleeping. There is plenty of theremin action via other social media websites. Ya gotta get wit da program!
I think the interesting question here is not: “What are the theremin’s vocal chords?” but “What or WHO is the instrument?”
With other musical instruments there is some kind of physical contact with a device, be it a Steinway grand or a triangle, that causes that device to produce a sound. With the theremin, there is no physical contact, and once it is turned on and adjusted, it makes its sound on its own without any need for a player.
The theremin is no more of a “musical instrument” than a radio or a TV sitting in a corner happily blasting away by itself.
The “instrument” is YOU, the thereminist, and the art of playing consists not of creating sound (something the theremin does quite nicely without you) but creating silence. We are dancers in the air and, like all dancers, our “instrument” is our body.
Rob Schwimmer
The “instrument” is YOU, the thereminist, and the art of playing consists not of creating sound (something the theremin does quite nicely without you) but creating silence.