My dad just bought himself a Stylophone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylophone

It sounds... well, fairly irritating, actually. But it's amusing to make 
music out of it, for the same reasons that the Kazoo Keylelle is 
amusing. Somebody about the absurdity of it appeals to me.

It also reminds me that I sometimes wish there was a small portable 
keyboard device that I could use to demonstrate my playing prowess at 
random occasions. Perhaps I should design something...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> My dad just bought himself a Stylophone:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylophone
>

Your father is sick ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1970/toys1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1970/toysclip.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bdMijwdDbg

Stephen

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Stephen wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> My dad just bought himself a Stylophone:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylophone
>>
> 
> Your father is sick ;)
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1970/toys1.shtml
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1970/toysclip.shtml
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bdMijwdDbg
> 
> Stephen
> 
Being told that Andrew's dad bought a Stylophone is bad, but then having
you link the sound of the d*mned thing is a thousand times worse.
Repeat after me:
	Mea culpa, mea culpa
	Mea maxima culpa

One thousand years in purgatory or a pint of foaming ale as a penance;
your choice :-)

John

-- 
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei

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Stephen wrote:

> Your father is sick ;)

He married my mother didn't he? ;-)

[Surely no sane person would do that... She's Evil. EVIL, I say!!]

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Doctor John wrote:

> Being told that Andrew's dad bought a Stylophone is bad, but then having
> you link the sound of the d*mned thing is a thousand times worse.

Mahahahaha! >:-D

> Repeat after me:
> 	Mea culpa, mea culpa
> 	Mea maxima culpa

Je veux aller au bout des mes fantasmes
Je sais que c'est interdit
Je suis folle, je m'abandonne
Mea culpa.

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Doctor John <joh### [at] homecom> wrote:

> Being told that Andrew's dad bought a Stylophone is bad, but then having
> you link the sound of the d*mned thing is a thousand times worse.

Not only that it was Rolf Harris playing it :P

> Repeat after me:
>  Mea culpa, mea culpa
>  Mea maxima culpa
>


:)

> One thousand years in purgatory or a pint of foaming ale as a penance;
> your choice :-)
>


pint in Copenhagen is hard.

--

Stephen

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
>
> > Being told that Andrew's dad bought a Stylophone is bad, but then having
> > you link the sound of the d*mned thing is a thousand times worse.
>
> Mahahahaha! >:-D
>
> > Repeat after me:
> >  Mea culpa, mea culpa
> >  Mea maxima culpa
>
> Je veux aller au bout des mes fantasmes
> Je sais que c'est interdit
> Je suis folle, je m'abandonne
> Mea culpa.



My son

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> It also reminds me that I sometimes wish there was a small portable 
> keyboard device that I could use to demonstrate my playing prowess at 
> random occasions. Perhaps I should design something...

Something like this, perhaps:

http://www.buyrolluppiano.com/

And then there's always this:

http://www.afidallas.com/uploaded-images/622-big.jpeg

But it's a little bigger and a bit less portable.

Sam

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stbenge wrote:

> Something like this, perhaps:
> 
> http://www.buyrolluppiano.com/

Hmm, interesting. I think I remember seeing a roll-up keyboard in 
Maplin. (It's unclear whether this is just a USB keyboard or actually 
includes sound generating capabilities as well...)

Ah, here we go:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221630

Still unclear whether it has speakers...

> And then there's always this:
> 
> http://www.afidallas.com/uploaded-images/622-big.jpeg
> 
> But it's a little bigger and a bit less portable.

This is the antithesis of portability! o_O

However, the other day my dad did specifically ask me what Widor's 
Toccata would sound like on this instrument - and how many people it 
would take to play! ;-)

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> stbenge wrote:
>> And then there's always this:
>>
>> http://www.afidallas.com/uploaded-images/622-big.jpeg
>>
>> But it's a little bigger and a bit less portable.
> 
> This is the antithesis of portability! o_O

:-)

> However, the other day my dad did specifically ask me what Widor's 
> Toccata would sound like on this instrument - and how many people it 
> would take to play! ;-)

It might sound good, but I can almost guarantee it would look quite 
silly. I can see it in my mind's eye: a line of ten women and men in 
formal wear all frantic and sweaty in front of a slack-jawed audience.

Sam

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