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Really? It's one of the oldest electronic instruments.
It's used in the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations.
Edit: it's older than that, I'm just throwing the Beach Boys out there as something most have heard.
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Originally Posted by macfantn 
yes really and who the hell are beach boys
Well, to be fair, you did say seen it, and I don't think there was a video for that song. 
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Way before the Beach Boys, the entire score for, and most of the sound effects for "Forbidden Planet" were produced on a theramin. It's a remarkable instrument, a real step (maybe a leap) outside the box. One doesn't play it like any other instrument. It's more like one conducts it. Very interesting, and very cool.
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I've played around with one before and have no idea how anyone can achieve "notes" with the thing, yet understand completely that it can be done. It's weird.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
the entire score for, and most of the sound effects for "Forbidden Planet" were produced on a theramin.
I love that movie, I will have to watch it again to catch that though...
-Zach
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Originally Posted by subego
Really? It's one of the oldest electronic instruments.
It's used in the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations.
Edit: it's older than that, I'm just throwing the Beach Boys out there as something most have heard.
Interesting instrument so I started reading the wikipedia article on it and noticed the following:
"Contrary to popular belief, the theremin was not used on the 1966 recording of "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys, which featured Paul Tanner's "box", later called the electro-theremin. However, for concert appearances, an oscillator slide-controller was designed and built for Wilson by Robert Moog. Wilson helped to popularize the instrument when he recorded Paul Tanner playing his electro-theremin -- for the first time in recorded music history -- on the song "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." The song appeared on The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, considered one of the most influential albums in popular music history."
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Originally Posted by SSharon
"Contrary to popular belief, the theremin was not used on the 1966 recording of "Good Vibrations"...
I stand corrected.
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Comedian (ex?) Steve Martin is a virtuoso on the Theramin.
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Originally Posted by SSharon
Interesting instrument so I started reading the wikipedia article on it and noticed the following:
"Contrary to popular belief, the theremin was not used on the 1966 recording of "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys, which featured Paul Tanner's "box", later called the electro-theremin. However, for concert appearances, an oscillator slide-controller was designed and built for Wilson by Robert Moog. Wilson helped to popularize the instrument when he recorded Paul Tanner playing his electro-theremin -- for the first time in recorded music history -- on the song "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." The song appeared on The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, considered one of the most influential albums in popular music history."
Thank you.
The misnomer on the album credits is unfortunate, but it makes sense since the theremin was a known instrument, and in 1966, nobody had a clue what a "synthesizer" might possibly be.
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They sure made it SOUND like a theramin on "Good Vibrations." But analogika is right; 1966 was way before Moog managed to make his synthesizer a performance staple, so that term was not something people would recognize.
I've also found that I was wrong about "Forbidden Planet." The score by Louis and Bebe Barron was NOT performed on a theramin; it was produced with a ring modulator and post production effects. It sounds like a theramin in a lot of places, but so does a bowed saw for that matter.
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There's a fantastic documentary on the theremin called, aptly, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. It talks about the strange life of its inventor, Professor Leon Theremin, the beautiful and brilliant Clara Rockmore, the instrument's first virtuoso, and its long history in popular music, film soundtracks, and culture. I highly recommend seeing it if you haven't.
It also features a bizarre and loopy interview with a cleary very whacked-out Brian Wilson, which alone is worth the price of admission.
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I was shocked to see both simpsons and futurama references in the wiki article. How did I miss those?
I even read the Herman Wouk novel that mentions it, but don't remember looking it up at the time (and I like to look up words I don't recognize).
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That’s awesome!
Up till now I associated the Theremin exclusively with spooky sounds, I never heard someone playing it like this. 
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Originally Posted by ghporter
They sure made it SOUND like a theramin on "Good Vibrations."
I was further confused by the fact that a local radio guy toured with Brian Wilson (I dunno, 10 years back or so), solely to play the Theramin on Good Vibrations (and to provide moral support, Brian's still pretty screwed up).
He was absolutely using a real Theramin because he tortured us for hours on the air trying to learn how to play the thing.
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