MUSIC PLAYED BY TOUCH (Jul, 1947)
Filed under: Music, Toys and Games — @ 7:55 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1947
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1947
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MUSIC PLAYED BY TOUCH
Designed as an educational toy, an electric xylophone introduced by Barr. Inc., of Rockford, Ill., produces a tune when a pointer is inserted in holes constituting the notes of special music sheets. Each contact closes a low-voltage circuit, energizing a solenoid and causing a glass tube to be struck. The instrument has nine notes, and operates on A.C. only. Six music sheets are available.
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Comment by jayessell — July 18, 2007 @ 9:39 am
this is highly bizarre - it’s not quite a Stylophone - we had this exact toy in the early 1980s in the Soviet Union - it was styled as a red plastic “book” with paper music sheet pages, many melodies, most of them folk songs…just shows how long some ideas take to die…
Comment by ANI — August 1, 2007 @ 7:41 pm