The Stylophone was conceived by Brian Jarvis and launched by Dubrecq in 1967: it was a portable mini-synthesizer that produced a super-basic range of sounds by touching or swiping on its metal keyboard with a stylus. It started out as a toy instrument, still many musicians would add its sound to their productions, including David Bowie, and Kraftwerk (in their Pocket Calculator). Dubrecq relaunched the Stylophone in 2007, and then in 2020 developed an updated retro-version even closer to the original one, which immediately became part of the MoMA design catalogue: it features an analogue oscillator and a three-octave tone selector and, of course, it is powered by AA batteries. (image via store.moma.org)
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