Toy Instruments
Design, Nostalgia, Music
Eric Schneider
- Page Count: 192 pages
- Size: 6.25 x 6.25 inches
- Format: Casebound
- Publication Date: January 2010
- Price: $19.95
- ISBN: 978-0-9820754-8-7
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Toy Instruments comprises an eye-popping collection of musical toys made between the 1950s and 1990s. Created to excite children about learning how to play an instrument, it turns out that adults also had fun with these products. Just ask David Bowie; he used the Stylophone in his song “Space Oddity.”
Culled from the author’s personal collection, Toy Instruments explores this niche of the toy industry, doing so with an informative and humorous approach that demonstrates how even in today’s world of Guitar Hero and Wii, these musical toys are emblematic, and enigmatic, artifacts from bygone eras. As DJ Spooky writes in his introduction, “I think of the material that Eric Schneider has compiled as a kind of ‘object’ time machine, reaching back to the heart of what electronic music represented when it was new.”
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