Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Analog music instruments were rendered largely outdated by the 1960s, anachronistic ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

Even if you're not familiar with the musical instrument called the theremin, chances are you've heard its ghostly sound. It's featured in "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, as well as some of the ...

A tattoo of a circuit diagram encircles my forearm. It’s from an electronic instrument I built from a kita theremin, which is played by moving your hands around a pair of antennas. Even if the ...

Of all the musical instruments created over time, the theremin is certainly one of the most intriguing. It almost seems like magic the way the device reacts to moving hands closer and farther away ...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Theremin. It was way back in 1920 that Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin in the west, first demonstrated one of the most important ...

It’s been a full century since Leon Theremin created the electronic instrument bearing his name, and to celebrate Moog is releasing what must surely be the best-looking (and may be the best-sounding) ...

My younger son has taken violin lessons since he was little, but he doesn't practice as much as I'd like. "Is there another instrument you'd like better?" I once asked him. His answer: "I guess a ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...