Featuring: Norm's Stylophone Collection

This website is about the Original Vintage British Stylophones made by Dubreq from 1968 to 1985. If it has an MP3 socket, it may still be a genuine Dubreq Stylo, but it ain't welcome here!

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How Did Norm Get Into Stylophones?

I remember in the mid to late 70's Gramps having a Stylophone, he would occasionally get it out and play us kids a tune on it.

I also remember being allowed to listen to the Rolf Harris demo disk, and hearing multiple Stylophones playing together in harmony. That music stuck in my head as did a love for the Stylophone.

The love laid dorment until around 1997, when I found an old Stylophone at a second hand shop, so bought it. I had that one for about a year, then got offered some decent money for it, so I sold it. I regretted selling it, but at the time, money was more important.

Around 2012 I found a Stylophone going for a price I could afford on an auction website, so I bought it. Then in 2014, when Mr Harris got found out, people just wanted to get rid of Stylophones and anything else RH had been involved in, so I was able to buy Stylos for basically the price of postage (around £3), and that's how my collection started.

Some Random Stuff:

Roland Rat's Styrofoams

Roland Rat (pictured) was on British TV in the early 80's, there was a segment in one of his shows about Stylophones, and he called them Styrofoams!

I can't remember much at all about the show, but the fact he called them styrofoams struck me as very funny and it stuck in my head, If any of you can remember that show or know of a video clip of it, please contact me!

The Inspiational Picture.

When I first started my collection (well over 10 years ago), I saw a picture of a New Sound Stylophone sitting atop a 350s, I was in awe of that picture and dreamed of being able to own and take a picture of such wonderful Stylophones. Several years later, I was able to take this photo of Stylos from my collection.

Nowadays, I have way too many stylophones, and am only missing 2 Stylo's from having a complete collection... The missing 2 are of course the mega rare revision 1 & 2 Bass Stylophones. I would also like to get hold of a prototype Stylophone too, but one of those will probably be more rare than a revision 1 bass, so I don't hold out much hope! (cash waiting if any of you have one!)