Name: Tannerin (Wikipedia), an electronic instrument designed to mimic the sound of the themerin.

Family: Electronic Instruments

Also known as: Electro-Theremin

Wikidata item:  Q1493856

Invented by: Paul Tanner and Bob Whitsell.

Made in: Late 1950s.

Age: Approximately 60 years old.

Derived from: Theremin.

Similar to: Musical saw, Ondes Martenot, trautonium, Electronde, MC-505, Haken Continuum, Persephone, Audiocubes, Otamatone.

Disambiguation: An early synthesizer-like device that sounds like a theremin.

Description: The Electro-theremin may be similar in tone and portamento with the theremin, but they have different control mechanisms. The instrument has a sine wave generator placed in a wooden box. The generator comes with a knob which is attached to a slider at the exterior of the box with a piece of string, and aids in the control of its pitch. Moving the slider turns the knob and produces a specific frequency.

History: After being created in the late 1950s, the tannerin was utilized in a few music releases in the late 1950s and 1960s. Paul Tanner's prototype Electro-Theremin may have been the only one of its kind made, and in the late 1960s, Tanner donated or sold the instrument to a hospital. In the year 1999, Tom Polk made a replica of the original Electro-Theremin and he was the person who dubbed the name "Tannerin", in honor of its creator Paul Tanner.

External links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Theremin
• http://www.electrotheremin.com/PTE-TPage.html
• http://www.tompolk.com/Tannerin/Tannerin.html

Images:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Tanner_with_Electro-Theremin.jpg
• http://www.tompolk.com/Tannerin/Tannerin.html

 

Example uses:

• Straight Outta Lynwood Track 2, credited as theremin
• Music for Heavenly Bodies played by Paul Tanner / Andre Montero And His Orchestra
• I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, by The Beach Boys
• Good Vibrations, by The Beach Boys.
• Wild Honey by The Beach Boys. 

 

 

 

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Tannerin

• Other names: Electro-Theremin
• Wikipedia: Electro-Theremin
• Family: Electronic Instruments
• Description: an early synthesizer-like device that sounds like a theremin
• Appears on:
  1. Straight Outta Lynwood Track 2, credited as theremin