Steve, The Thereman documents are also on one of the RCA Redbooks, (forget which one) but it's all there.
Also check out Philip Neidlinger's web page. He built one. Lot's of photo and good information + schematics here. http://www.neidlinger.us/keppinger.htm I went to a Theremin concert a couple of years ago. They player had a modern one by Moog (about 1500 bucks). I ended up buying the Moog $400 version and have had some fun with it. I assure you though, that nothing that sounds like music has ever come from it, but it sure is fun to put it on the floor and watch the cat walk by. :-) I also take it to the middle school where I work and put it in my computer lab and watch the kids walk by. After we all have a good laugh, I show them a short video and then let them try. It's not as easy as it looks, or as RCA promised everyone when they tried to sell it. 73, John Dilks, K2TQN --------------------------- At 11:02 PM 3/26/2009, you wrote: >Ken, that sounds great. We could also post it online for others. > >Thanks... > >Steve WD8DAS > >[email protected] >http://www.wd8das.net/ >--------------------------------------------------------- >Radio is your best entertainment value. >--------------------------------------------------------- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ken Zuercher <[email protected]> >To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service ><[email protected]> >Sent: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 8:36 pm >Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Tube Theremin > > > > >Steve, >I have a manual for what I believe is the first commercially available >Theremin >made by RCA in the 1930's. It uses the same hetrodyning principal but >uses some >oddball transformers that would give us fits to replicate. I can try to >scan the >manual with schematic if you're interested. It is fascinating. >Ken Zuercher KC8QO > > >--- On Fri, 3/20/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Subject: [AMRadio] Tube Theremin > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 4:08 PM > > I've got a new sort-of AM project on the bench here > > now:? a tube Theremin.? This musical instrument produces > > sound by heterodyning two > > oscillators that run in the low-end of the broadcast band. > > I'd like to find three Miller 70-OSC coils or > > equivalent for this rig - anyone have some?? > > > > > > > > If you are interested in the circuit, I'm building upon > > the ideas of Doug Forbes that I found online.? > > > > See > > > > http://www.wd8das.net/theremin.gif > > > > and > > > > http://www.wd8das.net/theremin.txt > > > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Steve WD8DAS > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://www.wd8das.net/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Radio is your best entertainment value. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > > AMRadio mailing list > > Searchable Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Post: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send an email to > > [email protected] with > > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: > > http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >______________________________________________________________ >Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net >AMRadio mailing list >Searchable Archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html >List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio >Post: [email protected] >To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with >the word unsubscribe in the message body. > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > >______________________________________________________________ >Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net >AMRadio mailing list >Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html >List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio >Post: [email protected] >To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with >the word unsubscribe in the message body. > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. 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