source file: m1346.txt Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:58:26 EST Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1345 From: A440A Jon writes: I am looking for a theremin player! Anyone you can recommend in the LA/San Diego area that can read and play? >> I bet Robert Moog, at Big Briar can tell you who is playing where. He has been traveling all over the country with his theremins. ( I got one, it is the ultimate "air" machine). And for the possible "thereminists-to-be-maybe-if-I-find-one-more-reason- to-get-one" out there, when it comes time for the amp, I strongly recommend that you get one with not only reverb, but also chorus effect. The really clean, dry, theremin sound is strong, but extremely difficult to do without a lot of woodsheddin'. It is surprising how fast things get rusty when your chops are waving. The instrument really comes alive with some phase activity going on. I suppose this effect may share some psycho-affective territory within which tempering operates. Speaking of tempering........... The historical temperament crusade added another head (University piano department) to the converted. After a weekend of Young, Beethoven, and Steinway, Dr. Reed, at Lipscomb University, called me late Sunday, saying he was a changed man! This was his first exposure to Well Tempering, and two days later, he played his Sabbatical recital( a biggie), on a temperament he didn't know existed a week before. Someone tell McClaren that another pebble has fallen off the "ET monolith". Regards to all, Ed Foote Precision Piano Works Nashville, Tn. The CD liner notes from "Beethoven In The Temperaments" are now on a web page http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/history/edfoote.html