Lev Theremin News Today

HAMAMATSU--To Kazuo Yasumatsu, a Russian-style doll with a yellow hood, which sits in a corner of the treatment room of his acupuncture and moxibustion clinic here, is not a toy.

Emulating a disembodied voice, the theremins potential was soon realized in Americas burgeoning film industry, where it was regularly employed to accompany the supernatural and extraterrestrial — a flying saucer, a ray gun, an alien creature, and all sorts of other phenomena in black-and-white B movies of the 1950s. Beyond that niche, the theremin also found a place — albeit marginally — in classical and popular music. Robert Moog was the first to mass-produce the theremin, which then ...