Leon Theremin’s Musical Instrument Can Be Played Without Being Touched

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
28/08/2023 3 min Temporada 5 Episodio 1074

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Today is, thanks to a long-ago calendar change, one of two birthdays in 1896 of Leon Theremin. He invented a very unusual musical instrument that you play without touching it. Plus: a UK woman pranked her husband by pretending she'd won the lottery, only three weeks later, she really did.
Leon Theremin’s two birthdays: his official biographer speaks (Moog Foundation)
Theremin (Quartz)
Woman wins £1m weeks after fake lottery win prank (BBC)
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