A friend of mine suggested to me today that it would be interesting to try playing Sardinian launeddas and theremin simultaneously…I’m sure Roland Kirk would’ve approved.
I was thinking such a setup could go really nicely with Portuguese fado singing and/or Afro-Brazilian percussion…
Well, you can play all sort of things together… Just what exactly would you play, though? They are about the most uncompatible instruments I can think about.
If you include a banjo in that ensemble I’d suggest the first tune played should be Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. 
Bill
You could play most anything in conjunction with a theremin. Maybe play it with bare feet? Your proverbial one-man band.
You could also get a nice avant garde composition by just leaving a theremin in a public place and recording the results. Reminiscint of Steve Allen noting birds on telephone wires - birds are notes, wires are staff lines.
You mean , like Olivier Messaien?
O that he had written for the bagpipe…
My suggestion for incompatability:
Biniou and Sitar 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71UfyyK7BkY
I like that theremin stuf
BTW Its not me 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wph6wGwPn9M&mode=related&search=
almost my uilleann pipes
Maybe you should move this thread to the electronic instrument forum.
Lock it damn it, lock the thread before somebody says something instructive!
finally someone understands. what say ye wombat?
Clavichord and GHB?
Picc and Tuba?
2 piccs? (parallel minor 2nds - )
Always thought Northumbrian Smallpipes and the foot pedals of an organ would sound pretty cool together.
Nah. A Shawm and a Tuba, with the Shawm and Tuba playing in (something like) unison and a constant backdrop of 3 Digeridoos, each a quarter step apart.
2 piccs, parallel min 2nds. I love that. Haven’t had a toothache for a while, about time.
For some reason when I read this, this song (which I hadn’t thought of in over 30 years) immediately popped into my head!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Several_Species_of_Small_Furry_Animals_Gathered_Together_in_a_Cave_and_Grooving_with_a_Pict
P.D.Q. Bach (aka. Peter Schickle-LAH) did this stuff already,
on his Sonata for Lute and Bagpipe, circa 1970!
For the realization of this “other” suggested arrangement,
you would need a Launeddas (which I have, a Punta di Organo in
“G” in the Zampogna style tuning, Thanks to Ted Anderson)
Then there’s a Theremin, by Robert Moog(RIP) and his company,
“Big Briar” in South Carolina.
Well, I got mine in 1997, when they were only $339 USD.
Note that it has to be plugged in (grounded), for the thing to work,
it’s not a cordless, traveling device, at all.
Then you need the book:
“Fado Portugues, Songs From The Soul of Portugal” by Donald Cohen
Printed by Wise Music, a part of the Music Sales Group,
New York and London.
My copy does not have a date, but it is new, and one of the best I’ve ever seen on the subject of “FADO” (songs of Fate).
It has the Portuguese words with English translations, printed music “lead sheets” with guitar chords,
AND… there’s a CD in the back cover with all the songs by their oridginal artists.
The book was $34.95 at the “Spanish Table” shop in Berkeley, California,
where I bought it, JUST LAST WEEK !
As for the percussionistas…those kinds of musicians,
are pretty easy to find in the SF bay area (I’m 130 miles South of San Francisco).
NOW… WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS…
WHERE’S THE PRODUCTION MONEY ?
Maybe we can let the First Person with the MOST-est,$$$$,
get the “idea” credit.
SO…What are we waiting for…Let’s get BUSY and RECORD IT… & I’m NOT JOKING AROUND !
Sean Folsom
Time has flown since this last post,
and nobody came forward with the production money
for the bagpipe/ theremin / & etc. playing Fado project.
Too Bad !!! I was looking forward to it… Really !
There’s just too much comedy in the world just now.
HuH ?
Be kind and keep laughing !
Sean Folsom