From: broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Re: TECH: Annoucing-- Musical Glove Program!
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 02:50:19 GMT
Message-ID: <BxqL7w.I99@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo



In article <1992Nov12.152658.25483@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM
(Richard Ottolini) writes:

>Several decades ago there was an analog electronic music generator that
>used hand motion to generate tones.   It used attennas that sensed the
>capacitance of the body.

The device is actually many decades old, and is called a "Theremin".

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