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Early electronic musical instrument
Answer for the clue "Early electronic musical instrument ", 8 letters:
theremin
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, from the name of its inventor, Russian engineer Léon Thérémin (1896-1993).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The theremin ( ; originally known as the ætherphone / etherphone , thereminophone or termenvox / thereminvox ) is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An electronic musical instrument that generates sound of varying pitch and volume depending on the proximity of the musician’s hands to two antennae mounted on the instrument.
Usage examples of theremin.
None could ignore the music, although they were only barely aware of the nasal tenor whose voice was not strong enough to carry over the wild squeals of the theremin and the twang of a dozen steel-stringed guitars.
As the panes lightened, the musicians blew windy music from their tuned sea-shells, and above the marine chords, the weaving voice of a theremin dipped and climbed.
The melody on the theremin halted abruptly, then plunged into the soaring theme of the Victory Anthem.
With inductance surfaces like a theremin, with frets like a guitar, down one side were short drones as on a sitar.
With a sigh he slung the battered theremin over his sloping shoulders.
And in steerage, his fingers wandering across the keyboard of the battered theremin, no one noticed that the man they called the Minstrel had lit his cigarette without a match.
It wavered like the cry of a theremin in an old horror movie, and just as it began to fade, a much louder answering cry came from Gaiten, where the Raggedy Man had taken his new, larger flock.
Tome was pretty fair on machine arts, such as the theremin, so that was not a good risk.
They could find themselves doing esthetic figures while parachuting from a simulated airplane tower, or playing a concert on a theremin, or doing sculpture by means of selective detonations of incendiary plastic.
He was good on the theremin, Stile was quite ready to challenge in the classification of music, but would prefer a normal, hand-powered instrument.
RMI is fully the equal of these progenitors, creating moody, shimmering soundscapes with moog, theremin, and more conventional instruments.
Charlie to make Scarface jealous, fondled a theremin dressed as an alien, and fallen asleep at the foot of a door to nowhere.
The moved on through the clutter of theremins, encore banjoes, and hurdy-gurdies.
They were performing a sort of minuet, graceful beyond words, to an accompaniment from the theremins in the manner of Mozart.
RMI is fully the equal of these progenitors, creating moody, shimmering soundscapes with moog, theremin, and more conventional instruments.