HaHa Steve, well I am 59 in November, so my memory extends to the Stylohone of
the 1970’s, here in the UK the primary promoter was Rolf Harris who was an
Australian variety performer, who died literally last week with his career in
tatters for reasons which |I won’t go into here !
Chris
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Chris, you're probably the only other person I know who even knows what that
is! A cousin of mine had one when we were kids. That was well over sixty years
ago. Now, do you remember who it was who voiced the little record that came
with it to teach you about the instrument, how to play it and keep it clean?
On 5/24/2023 3:52 PM, Chris Ankin wrote:
It was possible, however I think my attention span evaporated long before my
competence fully developed, it was a very basic and monophonic buzzy sound
which was not inspiring,
Certainly back in the 70’s it was perceived as being somewhat state of the art,
but these days I think most people probably have much greater expectations.
When they relaunched them they also made a stylohone rhythm device, which had
some equally basic drum sounds.
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Could u play it ok, Chris? I mean was it hard to use the stylus
accurately w/o eyesight?
On 5/24/23, Chris Ankin
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I did have one, but think it got discarded when I moved house a few years
back, it was one of the relaunched versions rather than the original 1970’s
models, a major disassociation with Rolf Harris of course who used to
promote them back then!
Chris
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Hmmmm! I don't think I've ever heard of one.
Bill
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