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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 187936" data-attributes="member: 6277">Be sure your sound is turned up <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEHItrTMHM#at=55" target="_blank">&quot;Symphony No.9, Boogie&quot; by Matryomin ensemble &quot;Da&quot; - YouTube</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; I don’t think I need to add much to this except I was destined to post this video, because of <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/03/01/on_winning_the_golden_mouth_organ.html" target="_blank">my love for Beethoven’s 9[SUP]th[/SUP] Symphony</a> coupled with an odd but ultimately harmless obsession with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin" target="_blank">theremins</a>.&nbsp; You know, the electronic device that measures the electric field as&nbsp; your hand waves around and changes the pitch and volume of the&nbsp; “oooowwwwwweeeeeoooooo” sound it makes, the instrument that launched a&nbsp; hundred 1950s scifi soundtracks.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, did I mention that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEHItrTMHM" target="_blank">in this piece</a>, all 167 theremins were hidden inside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll" target="_blank">matryoshka dolls</a>? Of course they were.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 187936, member: 6277"] Be sure your sound is turned up [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEHItrTMHM#at=55]"Symphony No.9, Boogie" by Matryomin ensemble "Da" - YouTube[/url] I don’t think I need to add much to this except I was destined to post this video, because of [URL="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/03/01/on_winning_the_golden_mouth_organ.html"]my love for Beethoven’s 9[SUP]th[/SUP] Symphony[/URL] coupled with an odd but ultimately harmless obsession with [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin"]theremins[/URL]. You know, the electronic device that measures the electric field as your hand waves around and changes the pitch and volume of the “oooowwwwwweeeeeoooooo” sound it makes, the instrument that launched a hundred 1950s scifi soundtracks. Oh, did I mention that [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEHItrTMHM"]in this piece[/URL], all 167 theremins were hidden inside [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll"]matryoshka dolls[/URL]? Of [I]course[/I] they were. [/QUOTE]

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