Sunday Synth Jam: New York Thereminist Rob Schwimmer plays a Star Trek – Coltrane After The Rain medley on a 1929 RCA “theremin of reknown.”
Schwimmer had this to say about playing the H. Whipple Abbott theremin: “84 years old electronics! And so thick sounding it’s as if you’re touching somebody.”
I have such tremendous admiration for those who play this instrument well. It is a very difficult thing to master and you see it too often in the hands of people that just make noise with it. Like me for example.
Kudos to Mr. Schwimmer for putting in the hours and learning to play the instrument. I have found it to be a Devil-In- A-Box. It looks so easy and that is just not the case.
Well done!