NAMM 2026: Dubreq has spent the past decade reimagining the concept of the Stylophone – a stylus-operated, handheld analogue synth invented in the late '60s – in various different forms, diversifying ...

Originally announced in January, and planned for release a month later, the Stylophone Gen R-8 touch analog synthesizer has now finally been released. But only 500 will be made. The first thing you ...

After missing its originally planned February release, Dubreq's latest Stylophone synthesizer is now available for purchase. This upgrade to the pocket-sized classic boasts new features and controls, ...

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 ...

What is it? The sound of parents' nightmares in the 70s. The original Dubreq Stylophone – a kind of stylus-operated pocket synthesiser, marketed mostly at kids – was in production from 1967 to 1980 ...

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 ...

The year before David Bowie’s Space Oddity (1968) swept the galaxy, British engineer Brian Jarvis was trying to mend his niece’s piano. One circuit board and a stylus later, the unique monophonic ...

Dubreq has announced the release of Stylophone BEAT, an affordable, pocket-sized drum machine featuring the same stylus-based design as its flagship Stylophone synthesizer. The drum machine offers ...

Dubreq, the brand behind the Stylophone, has announced the release of the Stylophone Theremin, its own version of the theremin, an early synthesizer controlled using the performer's hand movements in ...