Entries in Musical instruments (2)

Bontempi Organ

Every parent of the Cream era sincerely believed that their kid had it in them to become the next Yehudi Menuhin, Herb Alpert or Jose Feliciano (although the generally foreign disposition of such virtuosos implies that their next protege is unlikely to hail from Daventry). ... more>>>

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Registered CommenterSteve in | Comments8 Comments

Stylophone

What to say about this harmonic, monophonic, iconic artefact? If you didn’t own one, then you wanted to – fact. And it’s proved a must-have prop for pre- and post-ironic tunesmiths like Jarvis off of Pulp or Tin Machine’s David Bowie. Apparently profiting from the onset of the microelectronic revolution, the Stylophone was to all intents and purposes the Psion of the Moog world. ... more>>>

Posted on December 24, 2005 by Registered CommenterSteve in , | Comments13 Comments