I only got one piece of musical equipment for Christmas this year and it was:
I’ve always wanted one since seeing this.
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:16 pm
by Reece
ha, i got one last christmas.
it was mere seconds before it was going through my pedalboard making horrendous noises.
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:42 pm
by dezb1
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 there’s some mangled stylophone going on this track:
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:42 pm
by stewart
i've got an original rolf one. there's something wrong with it, it glitches like a mutha.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:32 pm
by dezb1
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:55 pm
by cobascis
I just rolf'd at the packaging. are these like electric xylophones?
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:42 pm
by paul_
cobascis wrote: are these like electric xylophones?
The Dübreq 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 — 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.
