"I actually have a high quality fake RCA " - Mike
Really interested in this! - Presumably its quite modern? .. Just wondering why anyone would have "faked" an RCA - it would make sense now, due to the historic value, but would it have made any sense even 30 years ago?
"The son of Boyd Zinman remembers his mother hauling theremins from their home to the dump in later years."
- So there was a time when theremins were so unpopular / unwanted that you couldn't even give them away ? - This really surprises me - it was (presumably) before the days when products were designed to fail just after their warranty expired - before the idea of "disposable" electronic products set in... Hell, I remember even in 1965, there was a market for old dysfunctional electronic equipment - transistors were just starting to be common but still cost the same or more than tubes, and old tube kit could be traded (I mis-spent my youth buying and selling old tube radios, radiograms, communication receivers, and buying tube test equipment) .. I would have bought a theremin without even knowing what it was! (I bought loads of tube stuff I never managed to "identify" - LOL ;-)
Fred.