|
The Dubreq Stylophone was a miniature electronic musical instrument invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis. It consisted of a metal keyboard that was played by touching it with a stylus - each note being connected to a cheap voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as children's toys. Rolf Harris appeared for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom. An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ...
Potential difference is a quantity in physics related to the amount of energy that would be required to move an object from one place to another against various types of force. ...
Cross coupled LC oscillator with output on top An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a repetitive electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave. ...
Resistor symbols (non-European) Resistor symbols (Europe, IEC) Axial-lead resistors on tape. ...
Rolf Harris. ...
Commercialism redirects here. ...
The Stylophone appears on a few commercial recordings, most notably David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and the commercial rave single "Stylophonia" by Two Little Boys in 1991. Kraftwerk used the Stylophone extensively on their album Computer World. The British duo Erasure also employed it on the single Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me (from the album Cowboy in 1997). In a lesser-known instance, the Stylophone is used for the bulk of Orbital's single, "Style". It is also used in Marilyn Manson's 'You and Me and the Devil Makes 3'. David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...
Space Oddity is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a single in 1969. ...
Look up rave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) are a German musical group who have made significant contributions to the development of experimental, electronic, New Wave, synthpop and techno music. ...
For the computer magazine, see Computerworld. ...
Erasure is an English synth pop duo band consisting of keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. ...
Cowboy is an album recorded by Erasure in 1997 and released by Mute Records in the UK. In the U.S., it was released by Madonnas former label Maverick Records. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Orbital were an English techno duo formed in 1989, consisting of brothers Paul (born 19 May 1968) and Phil Hartnoll (born 9 January 1964). ...
Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is a musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the band that bears the same name. ...
The more versatile S350 version of the instrument was extensively used by UK experimentalists Camberwell Now, and can be heard on their album All's Well. Camberwell Now was formed in London in 1982 after the demise of This Heat featuring one of the founders of that group, drummer and vocalist Charles Hayward, bassist and vocalist Trefor Goronwy, who had joined This Heat to replace Gareth Williams after the latter had quit the band, and This...
It was also played by The Beatles during the train sequence in their film "Hard Day's Night".
External links
|
Feeds |
Contact