via this auction. box shot.
"The Stylophone was made popular in David Bowie's Space Oddity and is making a resurgence in "retro" rock music."
Anyone confirm this?
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The Bowie thing is true, if that's what you mean. It's the cello-ish whole-note line under the verses (Ground Control to Major Tom, etc.) I don't remember model numbers and dates and such, but there were several types of Stylophones made and some models had direct outs you could connect to your mixing console.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's what I was wondering. Awesome. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteone word, Kraftwerk.
ReplyDeleteMay I add that in Space Oddity the little glissando bit that goes up right before the guitar solo is also the Stylophone (2:34 in this vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY . It would be very difficlut to perform on any other instrument witht the exception of maybe one of those Buchla Music Easels or the Thunderbird controller thing.
ReplyDeleteDavetron, I always wondered what the heck that was... for a long time I thought it had been done with the touch keyboard on a Synthi-A, but that wouldn't have produced the same result since it has a conventional layout of black and white keys in separate rows. You can't make one contact point cross both rows.
ReplyDeleteMellotron and Stylophone on the same track... who would've thought...
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ReplyDeleteA less well-known user of the Stylophone was Dave Ball of Soft Cell.
ReplyDeleteDave used the regular Rolf Harris one & the big one with 2 styli on their early demos back in 1979-80.