Electro-theremin player Paul Tanner dies - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Electro-theremin player Paul Tanner dies

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CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA -

The electro-theremin player on The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" has died.

Paul Tanner died of pneumonia Tuesday morning in Carlsbad, California, according to his son. Tanner was 95.

Tanner helped develop the electro-theremin and was a music professor at UCLA for 23 years. Before that, he was a trombonist in the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

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