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  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I always say the theramin is the voice that I never had, my Callus (ph) machine.

    CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2002 2002

  • Nabakov will spit when he reads she dumped a theramin.

    Kerry was wrong Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • He did all the arrangements for our somewhat peculiar mix of instruments: trumpet, clarinet, bass clarinet, trombone, and theramin.

    October 10th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Here's Jerry Oltion playing the theramin, a very skiffy instrument.

    October 10th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • When the visor of Gort began to open (accompanied by shrill and unearthly theramin music) revealing what might have been an eye or an atomic death ray beneath it, it scared the bejeezus outta me back when I was 45.

    MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010

  • By the end of the evening, his audience is dazzled with music coming from drums, piano, two screens β€” on one, an orchestra featuring the eerie sounds of a theramin –and against them all, Brion singing and playing live.

    Buzzine » Jon Brion 2009

  • If I can find you a theramin and a farfisa organ, could you be more melodramatic?

    "When the novelty of the first African American president wears off, the sight of Obama talking on television might have less impact..." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Humble to an almost saintly degree he created the theramin "biography" that is known to us today and remained the instrument's unsung creator, content to allow the false story to flourish, so as not to estrange his "familiar music" public.

    Happy Birthday, Ray Charles! Bill Crider 2007

  • Polygraph Lounge is an underground music/comedy duo from New York City, founded by multi-instrumentalists Rob Schwimmer (piano, theramin stylophone, claviola) and Mark Stewart (daxophone, trombadoo, chaladoo), a gifted guitarist who plays with the great Paul Simon.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ten 2009

  • The opening credits seem dated now, because the theramin sounds cheesy to modern ears, and a series of paintings coming gradually closer does not exactly build the unease it once did.

    Monday, April 20 – The Bleat. 2009

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