OFF: Buck and Lucky Leif

[Tigger]

In article <200104112251.SAA09112 at listserv.spc.edu>, Douglas Pearson
<ceres at SIRIUS.COM> writes

>>From the photograph on that site, you can see that it's played with a
>little stylus (sort of like a Stylophone) along a track, wheras a true
>Theremin is played by waving your hands in the air.  Obviously, the
>Tannerin makes it much easier for an untrained musician to play notes in
>tune, since they can be marked along the track the stylus runs over - you
>can't mark notes in the middle of thin air (well, I'm sure someone on this
>list could find a way)!

It's already been done to control a synthesizer - Jean Michel Jarres
'laser harp' - can't think of any reason why something like that
couldn't be adapted for a theremin.
--
David Blair