What is this piece of equipment?

[chrisdude911]

Hey guys,
I went to see bill bailey on friday and he was awesome!
I noticed a piece of equipment that he uses on stage a i would like to
know what it is.
Its in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyvsRAo8T8&feature=related

from 0:50-0:55
Does anyone know what it is??
Thanks
Chris

[Don Pearce]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:14:53 -0800 (PST), chrisdude911
> wrote:

>Hey guys,
>I went to see bill bailey on friday and he was awesome!
>I noticed a piece of equipment that he uses on stage a i would like to
>know what it is.
>Its in this video:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyvsRAo8T8&feature=related
>
>from 0:50-0:55
>Does anyone know what it is??
>Thanks
>Chris

It's a Theremin.

d

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Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

[chrisdude911]

On 2 Dec, 10:24, (Don Pearce) wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:14:53 -0800 (PST), chrisdude911
>
> > wrote:
> >Hey guys,
> >I went to see bill bailey on friday and he was awesome!
> >I noticed a piece of equipment that he uses on stage a i would like to
> >know what it is.
> >Its in this video:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyvsRAo8T8&feature=related
>
> >from 0:50-0:55
> >Does anyone know what it is??
> >Thanks
> >Chris
>
> It's a Theremin.
>
> d
>
> --
> Pearce Consultinghttp://www.pearce.uk.com

thanks

[D C[_2_]]

chrisdude911 wrote:

> Hey guys,
> I went to see bill bailey on friday and he was awesome!
> I noticed a piece of equipment that he uses on stage a i would like to
> know what it is.

Any MIDI keyboard can do what he's doing. Leaning on the pitch wheel and
getting a big laugh is puzzling to me. I don't think the guy's funny at
all.

[Mike Rivers]

On Dec 2, 12:24 pm, D C > wrote:

> Any MIDI keyboard can do what he's doing. Leaning on the pitch wheel and
> getting a big laugh is puzzling to me. I don't think the guy's funny at
> all.

That's what I thought (both, actually). I didn't hear or see anything
there that suggested a sound that a Theremin could do and a keyboard
with a pitch wheel or pressure sensitive keys couldn't.

I didn't watch the whole video so I don't know if he every got to the
"Over the Rainbow" joke, but it sounded like he might have been
leading up to it.

[Laurence Payne]

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:24:02 -0500, D C > wrote:

>> I went to see bill bailey on friday and he was awesome!
>> I noticed a piece of equipment that he uses on stage a i would like to
>> know what it is.
>
>Any MIDI keyboard can do what he's doing. Leaning on the pitch wheel and
>getting a big laugh is puzzling to me. I don't think the guy's funny at
>all.

But a large audience obviously did :-)

The "other dimension" sound probably COULD have been synthesised in
other ways. But it looks as if he's operating a separate box that
looks very much like a theremin. If he was faking, I imagine he'd
have waved his hand at something much more visually impressive.

[Scott Fraser]

> The "other dimension" sound probably COULD have been synthesised in other ways.>>

There are some recent Roland synthesizers & Alesis FX boxes which
implement infra red proximity controllers which can be mapped to any
parameter to do the same thing, but this is a theremin.

<< But it looks as if he's operating a separate box that looks very
much like a theremin. If he was faking, I imagine he'd have waved his
hand at something much more visually impressive.>>

It's a very tiny theremin. You can see the antenna sticking up about 6
inches on top of the keyboard.

Scott Fraser

[D C[_2_]]

Laurence Payne wrote:

>> Any MIDI keyboard can do what he's doing. Leaning on the pitch wheel and
>> getting a big laugh is puzzling to me. I don't think the guy's funny at
>> all.
>
> But a large audience obviously did :-)

That goes without saying. But you did anyway.

[Laurence Payne]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:40:11 -0800 (PST), Scott Fraser
> wrote:

>> The "other dimension" sound probably COULD have been synthesised in other ways.>>
>
>There are some recent Roland synthesizers & Alesis FX boxes which
>implement infra red proximity controllers which can be mapped to any
>parameter to do the same thing, but this is a theremin.
>
><< But it looks as if he's operating a separate box that looks very
>much like a theremin. If he was faking, I imagine he'd have waved his
>hand at something much more visually impressive.>>
>
>It's a very tiny theremin. You can see the antenna sticking up about 6
>inches on top of the keyboard.


Good. We agree then.