After missing its originally planned February release, Dubreq's latest Stylophone synthesizer is now available for purchase. This upgrade to the pocket-sized classic boasts new features and controls, ...

The Stylophone started life as a kitschy electronic toy instrument—the digital version of the kazoo, if you will—but over the years has slowly developed new sounds and features making it more than ...

What is it? The sound of parents' nightmares in the 70s. The original Dubreq Stylophone – a kind of stylus-operated pocket synthesiser, marketed mostly at kids – was in production from 1967 to 1980 ...

The year before David Bowie’s Space Oddity (1968) swept the galaxy, British engineer Brian Jarvis was trying to mend his niece’s piano. One circuit board and a stylus later, the unique monophonic ...