PHOTO UNAVAILABLEDraw a line. Commit a small musical incident.
A pocket synthesizer with a wired stylus instead of ordinary keys. Drag the pen across metal notes and the tiny speaker turns your handwriting into retro electronic noise.
It may look like a punchline. Look closer: what it does, why it caught our eye, and who would actually enjoy it.
A small battery-powered electronic instrument with a metal keyboard and an attached stylus. You make contact with a note rather than press a conventional piano key. The original model fits in a coat pocket and has its own speaker.
Turn it on, touch the stylus to a metal segment and slide between notes. Try the pitch settings and vibrato. Use headphones when the rest of the room has heard enough; the listing specifies three AA batteries.
The keyboard looks familiar until you discover that playing it requires a pen on a wire. Sliding produces an unmistakably wobbly electronic voice: somewhere between a melody and a machine disagreeing with you.
Pocket-instrument collectors, curious beginners and musicians who want a deliberately odd sound rather than another full-size keyboard.
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