Theremin

Move your finger through the air, no strings attached
by jake

A theremin you play with your finger. Press anywhere and drag: left to right bends the pitch across three octaves, up and down sets the volume, and a glowing trail follows your gesture in a color tied to the note you are on.

The real instrument, invented in the 1920s, is played without touching it at all, and free glide mode gives you that continuous eerie slide. Snap to a scale instead and you can play a recognizable tune. Pick a warm or a buzzy voice, and turn the classic hand-tremor vibrato on or off.

Works with a mouse or a touchscreen, and a phone is genuinely the better instrument here.

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