Belated Christmas present

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:14 pm

I only got one piece of musical equipment for Christmas this year and it was:

Iâ€™ve always wanted one since seeing this.

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Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:16 pm

ha, i got one last christmas.

it was mere seconds before it was going through my pedalboard making horrendous noises.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:42 pm

Reece wrote:ha, i got one last christmas.

it was mere seconds before it was going through my pedalboard making horrendous noises.

Talking about horrendous noise thereâ€™s some mangled stylophone going on this track:

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stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:42 pm

i've got an original rolf one. there's something wrong with it, it glitches like a mutha.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:32 pm

stewart wrote:i've got an original rolf one. there's something wrong with it, it glitches like a mutha.

Nice!

I went to see Rolf at the barrowland a few years ago, the nearest I have ever got to having a religious experience.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:55 pm

I just rolf'd at the packaging. are these like electric xylophones?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:42 pm

cobascis wrote: are these like electric xylophones?

The DÃ¼breq Stylophone is a miniature stylus-operated synthesizer invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis for Moviecol Enterprises Limited. It consists of a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus â€” each note being connected to a voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as children's toys.

In October 2007 toy company Re:creation, in conjunction with Dubreq Ltd (re-formed in 2003 by Ben Jarvis, the son of the original inventor), re-launched the Stylophone, 32 years after the original had ceased to be manufactured. The new model, officially called the S1 closely resembles the 1960s original but has a volume control and features an audio throughput function, as well as sporting two new sounds.

I have a new one in the mail, I kept meaning to get one but forgot until I saw the Beatbox one Jasmine posted the other day.

Between this and the chord organ and the melodica I'm gonna sound like a vintage preschool.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:21 am

god damn those are annoying.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:56 pm

icky thump solo anyone?