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There is probably no person in the world who does not know the great Serbian scientist Nicola Tesla. And here is our talented Today, few know Lev Sergeyevich Theremin although, as experts say, he, like Tesla, was ahead of his discoveries have a time of at least a hundred years.
Leo Theremin was born in 1896. Having received music (by class cello), and then higher physical and mathematical education, he achieved exceptional success in many fields of science, and therefore considered to be a universal scientist. It’s enough to say that already in the first half of the last century, theremin was developing drones (and his pupil was the future father of the Soviet cosmonautics S. Korolev), promoted sonar technology, and also cryogenic freezing people, in 1926 put together an experimental model TV. On the account of the scientist were top-secret systems remote listening, not to mention alarms, say, made by him for the companies Sing Sing, Alcatraz, as well as much more.
We will not discuss here the reasons why Leo Sergeyevich could not realize even a small part of what he had planned. IN In this regard, he shared the fate of both Nikola Tesla and others researchers far ahead of their time. Today we let’s talk about a unique musical instrument that he invented this brilliant scientist.
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In 1919, Theremin designed a device for studying properties gases, however, during his testing, found that his brainchild, among other things, it responds to the position of the hands of the experimenter. This prompted a scientist (besides, as we know, a professional cellist) to create a fundamentally new musical a tool by which sounds can be extracted non-contact way. The contractor in this case commits in the field of action instrument passes certain hands and thereby sets the height longitude and loudness of notes, which is why unusual sound is born music. Of course, the performer must have absolute pitch, since neither the strings nor the keys are an instrument named after him There is no inventor of thereminovox.
In 1922, Lev Sergeyevich demonstrated his thereminovoks (etherphone) to V.I. Lenin, who praised this invention. But it caused even greater delight in Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein.
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Despite some prominent composers and musicians (in particular Dmitry Shostakovich, the Led Zeppelin group) used in his work Theremin’s unique instrument, the ethericphone never widespread, although its improved models are released today. Play a musical instrument of the future in our time, only a few units are solved – only performers with absolute pitch.
By the way, let’s say that the main musical theme of the popular series Doctor Who is played on the instrument of the great Russian scientist Leo Sergeyevich Termen – on the air.
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