Sam Atherton said:
eBay is your friend! There are loads of them for sale.
Can't wait for your first concert...
There were two sizes too! Come on, after the Floral Dance, Lincolnshire Poacher etc. etc. surely brass bands are the medium for someone to concoct a feature for amplified Stylophones and band!
Saw this description on a website (for the benefit of those who have never encoutered the aural 'delights' of the Stylophone.....
'David Bowie may have used this instrument for one note on Space Oddity and Chicory Tip sounded like they had the mains powered deluxe model on Son of my Father, but this forerunner to home keyboards didn't last too long, despite (n.b. surely 'because of'????) celebrity endorsement from Rolf Harris.
On the introductory flexidisk record that came with the Stylophone, (n.b. My sister still has the flexidisk!) Rolf introduced us to its many sounds (Normal AND Vibrato - n.b. See what I mean about being ideal for brass bands? ;-)) and to a Stylophone orchestra he had formed that produced a catchy, up- tempo version of A Whiter Shade of Pale.
The B-side of the disc also featured advertising blurb for the Super Stylophone. The Super Stylophone could do lot's of different sounds and also had a larger scale.
The idea was to introduce kids to music. The reality, in most cases, was that after a while you got bored with reading the "How to Learn Scales" and began experimenting with switching the power off and on between notes or placing the pen half way down your tongue and touching the keyboard with the tip of your tongue to make noises which resembled a duck breaking wind.
Then there was the 350S - with fake wood grain and everything. It had two styli (styluses?) and ran off two of those huge old EverReady "doorstop" batteries that you just don't seem to see any more. . .
Stylophones were extremely expensive at the time and parents bemoaned having to spend the equivalent of two months wages on these electronic audio torture devices.'