[sdiy] Moog Piano Bar the evolution of the Dubreq Pianomate?

[s.thomas]

This Moog piano bar thingy  reminds me of the Dubreq Studios, Cricklewood,
England (stylophone inventors) 'PianoMate'. This is a weird/curio  item
which I picked up at a bootsale a few months back. Its basically a cabinet
with speaker/amp plus what are basically two transistor organ circuits
(perhaps stylophone based?)..producing treble and bass tones. The notes are
generated by two
'actuator' units that you sit ontop of a conventional piano(or in my case
synth!)  keyboard and which plug into the main unit via multiway cables. As
you play the piano(synth) keys the actuators (which have little lead weights
in them) are switched and produce notes on the bass/treble organs.
Polyphonically too! Guess it was meant to convert your old joanna into a
synth! It has rather cool tremolo/vibrato effects as well..quite a nice
sound all told. Anyone ever played with one of these before?

cheers
steve thomas