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From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert)
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Subject: Who's theme
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 10:14:40 EDT
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> ...     It apparently was removed to shorten the closing credits...does anyone
> know whether this was to give more show time or more commercial time?

This is the BBC, old chap, none of your nasty commercials here.

> does anyone know what kind of synthesizor was used in the early Baker version?
> And what kind of instrumentation was on the sixty-three version?  I'm not sure
> when the technology was available,

The "Who" theme has always been electronic; synthesized without a synthesizer.
I think the show was a ground-breaker in this respect. Back in '63 the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop (a sort of advanced sound-effects workshop that grew up
and is still growing with radio drama) produced the original theme using tone-
generators, variable-speed tape and **hours** of editing.

Trivia note: The TARDIS "time-belch" is produced by scraping a bass piano-
	string and playing the recording back at low, variable speed.

Charlie @ the Death Star, IL.