theremin

electronic music instrument
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theremin

Summary

theremin is a type of musical instrument[1]. theremin ranks in the top 1% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,309 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • theremin is credited with the discovery of Leon Theremin[3].
  • theremin's image is recorded as Etherwave Theremin Kit.jpg[4].
  • theremin's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[5].
  • theremin's GND ID is recorded as 4328687-2[6].
  • theremin's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh89006582[7].
  • theremin's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 144805593[8].
  • theremin's IdRef ID is recorded as 077074149[9].
  • theremin's subclass of is recorded as electronic musical instrument[10].
  • theremin's subclass of is recorded as analogue synthesizer or other electronic instrument with thermionic valve (vacuum-tube) based devices generating and/or processing electric sound signals[11].
  • theremin's subclass of is recorded as continuous-pitch instrument[12].
  • theremin's Commons category is recorded as Theremin[13].
  • theremin's has part is recorded as antenna[14].
  • theremin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07kc_[15].
  • theremin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Theremin[16].
  • theremin's Commons gallery is recorded as Theremin[17].
  • theremin's described at URL is recorded as http://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/cultura/Theremin_un_violino_nell_aria.htmllanguage[18].
  • theremin's described at URL is recorded as https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/arts/music/21walk.html[19].
  • theremin's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300042580[20].
  • theremin's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 96c9c681-ee2f-42a7-894b-c50d983b9e7f[21].
  • theremin's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/theremin[22].
  • theremin's used by is recorded as thereminist[23].
  • theremin's BBC Things ID is recorded as b65a9fe7-41f0-476f-9735-06138ff1b6cb[24].
  • theremin's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 531.1[25].
  • theremin's FAST ID is recorded as 1149727[26].
  • theremin's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4188853[27].

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Works and Contributions

theremin is credited with the discovery of Leon Theremin[3].

Why It Matters

theremin ranks in the top 1% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,309 views/month).[2] theremin has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] theremin is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . MIMO's classification of musical instruments. mimo-international.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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