You can slide your
finger down the piano graphic to verify
actual linearity using this note
tuner.
Below the crystal dolphin
is my tuning knob mounted under the center
bracket.
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It's Christmas '04,
today I understand how "True
beauty is hidden in Simplicity"
but the real marvel . . .
"Octave & key spacing is
the early man made control of the piano and the theremin
embraced it."
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Linear Intervals of
Notes & Keyboard
Spacing "LINKS" of three
to five octaves.
| "I became
interested in bringing about progress in music, so that
there would be more musical resources. I was not
satisfied with the mechanical instruments in existence,
of which there were many. They were all built using
elementary principles and were not physically well done.
I was interested in making a different kind of
instrument. And I wanted, of course, to make an
apparatus that would be controlled in space, exploiting
electrical fields, and that would use little energy.
Therefore I used electronic technology to create a
musical instrument that would provide greater
resources.... "
Lev Sergeyevich
Termen
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Lev Sergeyevich
Termen lower left
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