Thanks Bill for this fabulous brochure link, and for adding a link to rcatheremin.com on this brochure page. For those who may be interested, this brochure is a great introduction to RCA's marketing for their theremin. They put a huge investment into capturing a market for a product that ultimately couldn't be played by most users. The surviving Victor records from 1930 and (I think) 1931 are part of the legacy of RCA's foray into the musical instrument business. It wouldn't be until a quarter century later that they revisited the medium of electronic music, with a programmable synthesizer (like the phonograph, it would play "recordings" or programs, rather than being an instrument that could be played in real time.
I have a copy of this brochure, but haven't scanned it. Your scans, and the presentation of the page are beautiful. I'm copying my site co-creator Mike Buffington on this. He may add a link to your brochure page if he finds a suitable place to add it. Thank you for the invitation to link to it. Best, Andrew Baron Santa Fe On Mar 5, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Bill Burns wrote: > On 3/4/2012 9:11 PM, Andrew Baron wrote: >> My Victor Theremin* colleague and I have just co-created a new website: >> rcatheremin.com > > An excellent and much-needed resource! I've added a link to your site from > my page on the Victor Theremin brochure: > > http://ftldesign.com/Theremin/ > > You might consider linking back if you don't have a copy of the brochure > yourself. > > -- > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
