From organbarry@gmail.com Tue Feb 14 05:40:58 2012
Subject:Re: Cool keys on the Grammy's so Far

Yeah, there's a film clip of the Beach Boys playing "Good Vibrations"
with close-ups of Mike Love playing the contraption.

2/14/2012 8:22 AM, Simon Beck wrote:
>
> It's a Tannerin, formerly known (confusingly) as an
> "Electro-Theremin". It was invented by Paul Tanner, a session musican,
> and originally consisted simply of a Heathkit bench oscillator with a
> lever attached to the frequency knob. Yes, the "keyboard" is just a
> piece of paper for guidance, and if you think about it, the waveform
> you hear is quite different to that made by a real Theremin. The story
> goes that the MU rep at the Beach Boys' recording session needed to
> take a note of which instrument Tanner was playing, so he just came up
> with the name "Electro-Theremin".
>
> Simon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rrockkey
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:50 PM
> Subject: [CWSG] Re: Cool keys on the Grammy's so Far
>
> Yeah,
> I wonder too. You notice it was not even a KB as he was "playing" a
> slider just below the front edge of the top with a "picture or
> illustration" of a KB, obviously for reference.
>
> Cheers,
> Rock
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> , Pete Nalda wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what that keyboard was with the guitar pedal on top used
> for good vibrations on the lead?
> >
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> >
> > hammonddave2004@... wrote:
> >
> > And a Mellotron spotted during the Beach Boys tribute.
> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Norman Peterson
> > Sender: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:47:19
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>
> > Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: Cool keys on the Grammy's so Far
> >
> > She's so mean she has her own keyboard plugin software called "Alisha's
> > Key's "..
> > Norm