Llamaphone
A browser instrument inspired by the Stylophone, the 1960s pocket synth you play with a little metal pen. Touch the keys and slide along them for that buzzy, retro sound. Free, no download.
Llamaphone
Touch the keys, slide to play
Llamaphone
Touch a key
How to play
- Touch a metal key to play its note. It sounds for as long as you keep touching, and stops when you lift off.
- Slide along the keyboard to run from note to note, just like dragging the stylus across a real Stylophone.
- It plays one note at a time. If you touch with two fingers, the newest touch wins.
- Low notes are on the left and high notes on the right. On a phone, turning it sideways gives the keys more room.
- The keys are numbered the way Stylophone songbooks write tunes: 1 to 12 for the long keys, and numbers like 3.5 for the short sharps between them, just as they are printed on the plate. Switch to ABC to see note names instead.
- Bass, Standard, and Treble match the three original Stylophone models: Bass is an octave lower and Treble an octave higher than the Standard. Vibrato adds the classic wobble, and Tune nudges the pitch up to a semitone either way so you can play along with a record.
About the Stylophone
The Stylophone is a pocket analog synthesizer from 1967. You play it by touching a pen-shaped stylus to a printed metal keyboard, which gives it that buzzy, gliding sound.
Llamaphone has 20 keys from A to E, about an octave and a half, the same range as the original. The sound is generated live in your browser, with no recordings.