History of the Theremin

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Summary: The theremin is the world's first electronic musical instrument and was invented in the 1920s by a Russian scientist named Léon Theremin. Learn more about the history of the theremin in this free music lesson video from a professional avant garde musician.

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Barry Schwam Barry Schwam has been a professional musician for more than thirty years and continues to perform in Southern California, where he now lives. read more

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History of the Theremin

Hi I'm Barry Schwam and I'm here for expertvillage.com playing the theremin. Now the theremin was the worlds first electronic musical instrument it was invented in the 1920s by a Russian scientist named Leon Theremin who discover the ethers properties and spent his life creating it and developing it to be a ligament musical instrument. This instrument is what started the career of Robert Moog the pioneer has sensitize music. Also this theremin was played by a women named Clare Rockmore that became the theremin vernal soul of the 20,30s, and 40s. She use to be a violinist and develop arthritis and she meet Leon Theremin the inventor of the theremin and he taught here how to play, they had a romance but the most important thing is because she develop her or she changed her music from violin to theremin without arthritis effecting playing the theremin she could play the theremin and became very famous in do so.