Yup, that's the name I was wanting to be remembered. And yeah, I know
his story.
On 5/25/2023 5:28 PM, Chris Ankin wrote:
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.
Chris
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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 <chrisoverlord25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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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!
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> Chris
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> On 5/24/23, bspro@xxxxxxxxxxx <bspro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Hmmmm! I don't think I've ever heard of one.
>> Bill
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