Hi Jim and thanks for chiming in. Your Moog 91A is rare and desirable model, as I'm sure you know. Very low production. At the time RCA was tooling up for their ill-fated theremin venture, they were still a few months away from having the Camden Victor factories, so yes, GE & Westinghouse divided up the production at the standard ratio.
Best, Andrew Baron Santa Fe On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:51 PM, Jim Nichol wrote: > This is so cool! I own a Moog Theremin 91A (which is very close in > appearance to an RCA model). I only looked at your website for a few seconds > before I found that Theremins were made for RCA by both GE and Westinghouse. > I don't know why that never occurred to me before, since I knew RCA was based > on those two companies. I worked for GE for 37 years, but of course, > Theremins were never mentioned. > > Jim Nichol > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Andrew Baron wrote: > >> Hi all ~ >> >> My Victor Theremin* colleague and I have just co-created a new website: >> rcatheremin.com >> >> For those who may be interested, here you will find practical but heretofore >> unavailable information about the original 1929 theremins, the first >> manufactured musical instrument to employ no acoustic or mechanical means of >> reproducing of sound. In Victor advertising, it was stated: "Not a >> phonograph---Not a radio---Not like anything you have ever heard or seen!" >> >> There are Victor records of this unique first electronic musical instrument >> that date from 1930 (Victor 25130 is one that some of you may have seen), >> and the instrument itself (which is played without touching it) was >> developed during the time that RCA was busy acquiring the Victor Talking >> Machine Company. >> >> If any of you own or know of someone who has one of these original Victor >> Theremins, please let me know about it, as we are actively researching the >> survivors. Both Mike and I own RCA theremins, and are not in the market to >> buy, but rather are more interested in documenting the survivors and sharing >> what we've learned about these rare and unusual instruments. >> >> I hope you enjoy the site, >> Andrew Baron >> Santa Fe >> >> (*As originally advertised in 1929, also referred to in brochures as the RCA >> Theremin) >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
