Building a Theremin

[HailToTheBlues]

Hey guys,
I'm thinking about building myself a theremin to connect it to my guitar pedals and get some crazy psychedelic sounds, so i wanted to know if you guys built or know some projects out there for a theremin, because i was searching the web, and for what i saw it doesn't seem a tough build to complete, actually it seemed quite simple, but let me hear your thoughts.

Best regards

[copachino]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

[HailToTheBlues]

Thanks for the tip, i'm portuguese, so reading spanish is not a big deal!

[peterc]

PAIA have some nice ones.

[HailToTheBlues]

Yeah, but they are kinda expensive (not the most expensive, but still a bit), and maybe if i built one, i could do it for much less than i would spend in a new one, and even to experiment with it, because i could even not like the sound i create with it, so if i could build one for experiment (and even play with it) that would be great!

[HailToTheBlues]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

[copachino]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

[Bret608]

You could check out Theremaniacs in Milwaukee, WI. He also sells the copyrighted Harmonic Percolator clone, incidentally!

[HailToTheBlues]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

Thanks for the explanation, i may have skipped that part of the doc.

[TreeSlayer]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

Thanks for the explanation, i may have skipped that part of the doc.

this looks interesting... http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap

[HailToTheBlues]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

Thanks for the explanation, i may have skipped that part of the doc.

this looks interesting... http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap

It sure seems interesthing, but if i'm not mistaken that is an optical theremin, and i thing that those with antennas are more directed to what i'm looking for. Thanks for the tip anyway Layton.

[TreeSlayer]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

Thanks for the explanation, i may have skipped that part of the doc.

this looks interesting... http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap

It sure seems interesthing, but if i'm not mistaken that is an optical theremin, and i thing that those with antennas are more directed to what i'm looking for. Thanks for the tip anyway Layton.

it is optical. as it turns out, I have all I need to put one together. I'm gonna build one just to see if it's feasible to build the antenna type. I'm like you. it may not work out for me, so there's very little lost in the experiment.

[lincolnic]

You could build the Harrison Minimum Theremin - I was given a kit for one of these for my birthday a while back, but haven't actually built it yet.

http://harrisoninstruments.com/101/101_description.html

[HailToTheBlues]

this its s spanish web site, but here its some build of the theremin, using some choke inductors and other things, its posted a schematic and pics
  have fun

http://www.pisotones.com/Theremin/Theremini.htm

That theremin doesn't have a second antenna, don't theremins usually have two antennas? One for the pitch nd another one for controling the volume?

that a theremin miniature, its a small size theremin, he explain there that he traces the cuicuit fron the actual theremini, he bought on a street sale for 2 euros, that its the first picture, then the other its the build schematic its attached for the miniature theremin.


also he saids that he had never seen a theremin like that, so he thought it was like a special build, and traces to vero board

Thanks for the explanation, i may have skipped that part of the doc.

this looks interesting... http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap

It sure seems interesthing, but if i'm not mistaken that is an optical theremin, and i thing that those with antennas are more directed to what i'm looking for. Thanks for the tip anyway Layton.

it is optical. as it turns out, I have all I need to put one together. I'm gonna build one just to see if it's feasible to build the antenna type. I'm like you. it may not work out for me, so there's very little lost in the experiment.

If you end up building one, don't forget to do a quick demo! ahah

[HailToTheBlues]

You could build the Harrison Minimum Theremin - I was given a kit for one of these for my birthday a while back, but haven't actually built it yet.

http://harrisoninstruments.com/101/101_description.html

That looks interesting, but the shipping is quite expensive, and almost sure that i would need to pay customs, since i'm in europe.