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Miniorgan: Rare and vintage musical electronic toys 20 Aug 2007

A musical instrument that is played by drawing on a sheet of paper with a pencil.

Miniorgan is a collection of rare and vintage musical electronic toys (or as the curator puts it: "[it's] the first museum of lost organs, damned keyboards, childish synthesizers, dusty voice transformers and singing calculators..from the 70ies and 80ies").

From a user interface design perspective this stuff is absolutely fascinating. Take a look at the "Sketch-A-Tune" above. It was first released in 1975 and is "played" by drawing on a sheet of paper with a pencil!

[via Pixel Sumo]

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