As the 100th anniversary of the theremin draws closer, we explore an often asked (and incorrectly answered) question. When was the theremin invented? According to the book Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Dr. Albert Glinsky, Lev Termen had been...

An incredibly rare original Teletouch theremin built by Professor Leon Theremin himself will be auctioned by Sotheby's auction house on December 12th. The theremin is listed as being fully restored and in operational condition. While there are no...

Remember that instrument built by Lev Termen himself that appeared at Moog Music's headquarters last year? The story is pretty amazing... Daniel Bass bought it at an auction near Asheville, NC and then took it to Moog Music to have it inspected....

Today marks Leon Theremin's 120th birthday... sort of. Some sources list August 15th as his birthday, and others list August 28th. So which is right? The answer is "both", but there's a catch!  As Lydia Kavina explained in a Facebook post: In fact, Lev...

In honor of Leon Theremin's upcoming 120th birthday this August, Masami Takeuchi and others have planned a series of fantastic events in Japan. Leon Theremin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on August 15th, 1896. This was before the Russian revolution,...

These don't come along every day... Retrofret Guitars has posted for sale a rare 'Soloist Custom' theremin built by Leon Theremin himself. The price? It's a bargain if you have a spare $75,000 to spend! The sale is listed on Reverb.com . It was originally...

Today we remember Leon Theremin. What started out as a simple science experiment opened doors for Theremin to travel the world and spend a decade in New York. It also brought the attention of the Soviet state which resulted in years of indentured service...

A recently discovered VHS tape turned out to be missing footage of a concert from Leon Theremin's 1991 visit to Stanford University.  Theremin performed  Moscow Nights in the concert, though in hindsight the theme from The Lost Weekend  might have been...

Mother Jones magazine recently published a story about 250 declassified articles from an internal CIA magazine.  Among their 10 favorite articles was a real gem for theremin enthusiasts: an 11 page article on Leon Theremin.  The article...

As Lydia Kavina explained on Facebook this morning, Leon Theremin often joked that his name read backwards in Russian meant "not dying". And so, he lives on in our hearts and provides ongoing inspiration to never let the theremin "die". The detail...