stylophone

/ ˈstaɪləˌfəʊn /

noun

1. a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus

Word History and Origins

Origin of stylophone¹

C20: from styl ( us ) + -phone

Example Sentences

The archive will also feature some of his instruments and stage props, including producer Brian Eno’s EMS synthesizer and a stylophone given by musician Marc Bolan in the late 1960s and used on Bowie’s “Space Oddity” recording.

From Washington Post

It also features several instruments owned by the musician, including the Stylophone he played on his breakout 1969 single Space Oddity.

From BBC

With everything delayed, he retreated to his parents’ home in Connecticut with all his instruments – as a cover, he’s required to know the show on acoustic and electric guitar, bass, piano, synthesizer, baritone electric guitar and stylophone.

From The Guardian

At one point he hovers his hand over what sounds like a Stylophone and, without actually touching it, gets it to play: think Uri Geller meets the Aphex Twin.

From The Guardian

Drawn from his album “Songs for Unusual Creatures,” the program will playfully investigate species like the blobfish, the elephant shrew and the blue-footed booby, using Mr. Hearst’s band and instruments like the stylophone, the claviola and the theremin.

From New York Times