Duelling Stylophones.

Old vs New Stylophones - yes, thats right! Stylophone improvisation comparing the old Stylophone with the new repro ones. Hey, its just a bit of fun ;-)

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Music

Tags:

• stylophone
• original
• repro
• reproduction
• improv
• improvisation
• ballad
• rolf
• harris
• music
• fun

[mddawson1]

Do you think it would be possible to modify the new one to sound like the original?

[no66y666]

no because the originals used an analogue circuit whereas the new ones use a digital circuit. They just don't seem to sound alike. There are plenty of websites that have schematics of the original analogue circuit though if anyone fancied making one......

[mddawson1]

Thats an idea, buy a new one - gut it and fit analog circuitry.

[no66y666]

that may work. Could be worth a try if you have the patience. If you try it, let me know how it goes.

[123yanicko]

wich ones the new one, the second one? if so i think the new ones sound better and cleaner.

[no66y666]

I've just added annotations which hopefully should identify each one.

[w7eme]

the old ones use discrete resistor for each key, and of crappy tolerance, like 5% so they are all horibly out of tune. I have six old ones...try to harmonize them...forget it. That is what's so great about them though :)

[triclops8]

Thanks a lot, that was helpful!

[JeffIrok]

Nice performance! It sounds to me like you have your 'new' Stylophone on the second sound setting. (If I'm wrong, please correct me.) The first 2 settings are somewhat different and an octave lower than the third, which is the 'vintage sound'. I think a better comparison would be to use the third setting for the 'new' Stylophone. It sounds much closer to the 'old' one than the top Stylophone in your video.

[no66y666]

The new one is the 1st one played (at the top of the screen). I should have identified which is which really.