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80's keyboard casio/touch pad thingymebob

  • 01-10-2006 9:18pm
    #1
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭


    Wondering if anyone can help me out with a link or info
    on a keyboard from the 80's

    One of the first casio keyboards (which I had) was used by several
    pop bands of the 80's the one I am about to (try) and describe
    pre-dates any of these.

    When I was young I remember visiting my grandmothers house
    and being allowed to play with a casio like keyboard type gadget.
    This was before the standard keyboard where it did not have piano type press keys and memory and beats etc. this was far more basic.......

    This was a very basic keyboard small tiny and it had a wire attached to
    a stylus where you touched the metal stylus onto metal keys/pads to make
    the sound. (a bit like the touch sensitive television where you just touched the metal buttons on the telly's to change the channel)

    It was white. Small, I think it may have been a casio early model.
    The buttons were not buttons there were silver metal pairs of pads and
    when you touched the metal stylus against the pads the made an electircal
    connection and produce the sounds.

    Has anyone got a clue what I may be writing about?
    I dont know the brand or year but it would have been waaaaayyyy before
    any of the standard keyboards.

    ~B


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  • #2
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    Sounds like the Rolf Harris Stylophone to me!

    is this it ? http://www.stylophone.fsnet.co.uk/index.html

    click to hear that sweet sweet music again ...

    http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/soundsheet/stylophone.html


  • #3
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Sounds to me like a Stylophone too. Man I haven't seen one of those in years! Certainly a blast from the past. Mind you, I think I'll stick with my Roland :D
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  • #4
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    Sweet thats the one.
    The one I had was all white. It belonged to my uncle
    who at the time was a teenager and was still living at home.
    I remember visiting my grandparents and the thing was so
    special I was only allowed play with it on special occasions.

    ~B


  • #5
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    They sounded awful, something like a cross between an angry wasp and a Dalek with a bad head cold.

    Bowie, being Bowie, used one on a track on his last CD I believe.

    The Casio keyboard I think you're mixing the Stylophone up with was the VL1 - about the size of a large pencil case and equally melodic. German band Trio used it on their hit 'Da Da Da'.


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