A Cat Playing The Theremin

by Scott Beale on April 12, 2008 · 32 comments

If more cats could learn to play the theremin, the world would be a better place.

UPDATE: Oh look, here’s a cat playing with Theremin.

via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

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1 Enric April 12, 2008 at 10:57 am

That WTF look from fellow cat!

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2 binx April 12, 2008 at 11:38 am

now if I can just teach my bird to play mine…

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3 Doc Pop April 12, 2008 at 12:42 pm

That’s cute, if I had a ton of cat videos with musical instruments, I’d make a lolCats video.

The theremin in this video is a Otona no Kagaku desktop theremin. They look cute as hell, but I’ve never tried one.

BTW, I recently blogged about an episode of Tank Riot that is all about Leon Theremin.

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4 William April 12, 2008 at 5:26 pm

I saw this in my feed without realizing who it was from and said, “I should send this to Scott and Lori!” Heh, heh.

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5 engtech April 12, 2008 at 5:54 pm

Too cute. Love it :)

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6 Will Radik April 12, 2008 at 7:48 pm

in honor of this cat, I will learn how to play the meow mix song on the theremin

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7 Claire April 13, 2008 at 11:17 am

Hello. I was just browsing the webby people’s choice awards deciding who to vote for (yes I have got better things to do, but hey) and I hadn’t visited your site before. The fact the front page has a video of a cat playing a theremin is a Very Good Thing and will influence my vote. :-)

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8 Chuck April 14, 2008 at 6:33 am

Okay it is just RIDICULOUS how adorable these two are! And that quizzical look on the theremin-player’s face is priceless! Nice find!

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9 Joe Reifer April 14, 2008 at 9:39 am

I can haz theremin? Or maybe theremin – ur doin it wrong?

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10 Christopher April 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm

>> That WTF look from fellow cat!

hahhaha exactly what i was thinking!

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11 Bonnie April 14, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Now all we need is a dog playing a MOOG and we have the best Phillip Glass cover band ever!

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12 winston April 14, 2008 at 6:09 pm

this is so cute

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13 Conal Tuohy April 14, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Oh no!

“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”

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14 Mike April 14, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Nice. It seems like the cat on the top video could somehow detect the field that needed to be modified, apart from the sound it made. It made the rubbing motion as if it were a couch corner, rather than a standard reaction to sound (and the direction the sound came from) and instead as if the field were a perceivable entity.

Also kudos on your comment forms, making me enter the data in an unusual pattern when tabbing over them =P heh

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15 Dave Bell April 15, 2008 at 6:33 am

I support a cat who definitely prefers the original Doctor Who theme to the current version.

Doesn’t like Daleks…

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16 joe quint April 23, 2008 at 12:24 pm

what a waste of money. my cat plays w/soda caps

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