Dear James,
You see? This is why I should do more work, rather than sitting around looking at computers without working on them. I end up deciding I'm going to buy a theremin. Last month it was a cello. The month before that it was a small island off the coast of Costa Rica. It's costing me a fortune.
Do you still have your theremin? Is it all that hard to play? Any chance of you posting a video of yourself playing I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, even though that wasn't really a theremin.
Thereminist Lydia Kavina was the grand-niece of Leon Theremin, the inventor of electronic music and of the world's first drum machine. Lenin was so impressed with Theremin's theremin he took up classes himself. On returning to the Soviet Union, Theremin was imprisoned and set to work in a sharashka, a secret science and research centre, where he invented the Buran eavesdropping system, used for bugging the US, French and British embassies in Moscow, and later "The Thing", a listening device placed inside a wooden carving of the Great Seal, which was presented to the US ambassador as a token of good will and used to listen in to conversations in the US Embassy for the first seven years of the Cold War until it was accidentally discovered. Meanwhile, Jimmy Page messed about with a theremin on Whole Lotta Love.
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