The annual winter installment of the NAMM pro audio show doesn't start until next week, but we typically see companies tease announcements in advance. British synth outfit Dubreq has done just that, ...

Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable ...

A stylophone cover of Van Halen's "Eruption"? It exists. And while the idea might seem silly at first, the inventive rendition of Eddie Van Halen's classic guitar freakout performed on the miniature, ...

The Stylophone started life as a kitschy electronic toy instrument—the digital version of the kazoo, if you will—but over the years has slowly developed new sounds and features making it more than ...

David Bowie famously used a Stylophone on "Space Oddity" all the way back in 1969. Over half a century later, Stylophone maker Dubreq has released a Bowie version of the synthesizer. Dubreq teamed up ...

The Stylophone – a musical toy from the 60s – is a surprisingly simple piece of engineering. With a simple metallic keyboard played with a stylus and just a handful of transistors, the Stylophone was ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. The Stylophone makes 8-Bit music sound orchestral, which means it's the perfect time for a revival. The reissue ...

The Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” was the British New Wave group’s first Top 40 hit, way back in 1983. The song put singer Annie Lennox on the map, and the evocative music video helped ...

UK software company, the "Very Cool Software Company", sadly missed a trick when naming its forthcoming iPhone version of the Stylophone. The application is called the "Dubreq iStylophone", but it ...

Rather like the kazoo, the Stylophone is what you might term a “musical” “instrument.” The farty-bontempi sound was a feature of school playgrounds up and down the land—and even David Bowie used one ...

In case you aren’t fatigued from all the Van Halen content over the past two weeks (I’m certainly not!), here’s an absolute must-watch: a cover of “Eruption” on the stylophone, which Wikipedia defines ...