Stylophone

Invented in 1967, the Dübreq Stylophone is a small synthesizer played by touching a built-in stylus to the metal keyboard.

Boing Boing 2009

Stylophone is planning on launching a new music instrument called the Stylophone Vocoder.

Pocket-lint 2010

Stylophone is planning on launching a new music instrument called the Stylophone Vocoder.

Pocket-lint 2010

Stylophone is planning on launching a new music instrument called the Stylophone Vocoder.

Pocket-lint 2010

The session took place at Trident Studios in London using an eight-track recorder: "It went smoothly," recalls Buckmaster, "we did the basic track first, with David on jumbo guitar [large body acoustic], together with the rest of the rhythm section and Rick Wakeman's Mellotron, then David's vocal and Stylophone [a pocket-sized, stylus-operated electronic keyboard], and finally, strings and flutes."

Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy George Cole 2010

For more Stylophone fun, check out the below video of Brett Domino performing a "1980s Hits Medley" on the device.

Boing Boing 2009

Although the Detroit producers made free use of 'hydrofluoric acid', the metallic ping-pong tone wrested from the Rolf Harris Stylophone, they also often based tracks on funky basslines; acid techno, in contrast was predicated entirely on the Stylophone.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

In honour of him, here's a Radio With Pictures clip from 1983 of Knox on Stylophone! performing 'All of My Hollowness To You' live with the Tall Dwarfs.

NZ: where real men play the Stylophone DAVID BISHOP 2009

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NZ: where real men play the Stylophone DAVID BISHOP 2009

In honour of him, here's a Radio With Pictures clip from 1983 of Knox on Stylophone! performing 'All of My Hollowness To You' live with the Tall Dwarfs.

Archive 2009-12-01 DAVID BISHOP 2009