The Theremin was born. In November of 1920 Léon gave his first public concert with the instrument. He began touring with it in the late 1920’s and in 1928, he brought the Theremin to the United ...

There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first electronic instruments. Leon Theremin plays his namesake instrument. Image via Linda Hall ...

The theremin is one of the very first electronic instruments. It was invented by Russian Professor Leon Theremin in the 1920s. Four Young Post junior reporters spoke to the grand-daughter of ...

Cited as the first electronic instrument, the theremin was created by accident in a Soviet lab around 1920 by physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen, who was trying to create a gas meter to measure gas ...