Stylophone S-1 THE ORIGINAL POCKET SYNTHESIZER - including CARRY CASE

My daughter absolutely loves this, she saved up her pocket money to buy it and has had a lot of use from it and it still works well.Good sound quality (as far as stylophones go) with this versatile little musical instrument. Easy to carry in a bag for when she has sleepovers (lucky them). She has been able to play several tunes on it and finds it easy to use.

Works really well and is easyu to change the octive you are playing on to play bigger more complex tunes.

The Stylophone is a huge amount of fun. The appear basic and not too challenging. I use is as a backing track to my steel guitar, piano and guitar. I love it. It arrived early and in perfect condition. I bought another the next day 10/10z

Great fun to use good quality had one years ago david Bowie used one for his recording of space oddty very popular in its aday. .

We were in the music trade when Rolf Harris was promoting these on his excellent show, with bands of schoolkids playing them in concert.Must have sold a hundred of them myself, probably more. And thinking back, we never had one returned. But I've never had one for my own use until today - been - and do you know what, it's great fun!You don't need to read music to play one - there are a couple of tunes in the manual that are spelled out simply in a play-by-numbers fashion. Very easy to pick up, and a great morale booster.But if you wanted to, you could learn to read and perform sheet music on one of these.You just have to work out which note is which on the Stylophone - and since it is laid out like a mini piano, this is easy to do - much easier than (say) a recorder, which is another good first instrument.A simple piano book borrowed from a library would get you started, then you could transcribe sheet music to the Stylophone numbering system - an educational plus for kids there.Failing that, there is a Stylophone Music page at Tumblr dot com, and other Stylophone tunes all over the web.It does not have a large range of notes - one and a half octaves, compared with the two octaves of a recorder.But within that limitation, it does what it says on the tin! The headphone socket is a blessing for others who may not share the performers joy in music, and there is a lead provided that can connect it to recording hardware (MP3 player, eg) or amplification (adding reverb is a good tip).Recommended for kids of all ages - 6 to 96 seems about right. ;)

easy to use. musical

Very nostalgic, but the wire holding the stylus is too short, can only just reach the furthest notes

I have a home studio and I was looking for some quirky instruments to add for composing. I bought this having watched some YouTube demonstrations and for £25 I thought it was worth a try. I have included it in 2 compositions so far as well as having some great fun playing songs with my daughter. The Stylophone has been used by some greats including David Bowie but perhaps its most famous pop song was 'Son of my Father' by Chicory Tip in the 1970s.