Little Boots' bedroom pop makes the Stylophone stylish

"It was signal responding to electrodes; it sounded awful." That's how David Bowie recalls the Dübreq Stylophone, the original kids' synth, lent to him by Marc Bolan, used on his first hit, Space Oddity, and known more commonly to millions in the UK as the "Rolf Harris Stylophone".Played by banging a Nintendo DS-like stylus against a metal keypad, it did indeed sound pretty primitive. There was one single effect to change the sound, a barely discernible Vibrato switch, though on the accompanyin...

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