Ebay of the Day: Strap-on giant accordion thing

I think Dave speaks for us all when he writes: "Yahh!! (hork, gasp, choke) WHAT!! IS!! THIS!! THING??" And the answer is... I'm not sure. It's an attachment for an electronic accordion. "It has the same switches that are on the accordion. Light in weight and a show stopper. Only 12 of these were ever made." Imagine the kind of band you could form if you found the other 11.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

its a keytar!

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:02 am

Looks rather like an oversized Tubon

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:14 am

I found it while making my daily eBay search for "elka" (et al). Those crazy eye-talians.

# posted by

Dave : 5:45 pm

I was intrigued by anonymous's post, did a bit of research, and totally failed to find any information (let alone a picture) of a Livingston Tubon Synth. One came up on eBay in 2003, but that's it. Anyone?

# posted by

Tom Whitwell : 7:26 pm

"The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers" has a brief description:

"Strap-on, two and a half octave, battery operated bass keyboard. Users include: Believed to have been used by Ralf Huetter of Kraftwerk on some very early albums; definately used by Mike Rabin. Electronic bass sounds [...] Basically a tube, with mini-keyboard at right-hand end, left-hand controller near the top, and a chrome speaker at very top (left hand) end."

According to the book, the Tubon was made in the 60s.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:55 pm

Those awesomely tacky tabs on the back make it look like a reverse SH 1000 or SH 2000 stuck in a tube.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:06 pm

I sold the Tubon on ebay back in 2003.
Some pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84056801@N00/171896506/

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Anonymous : 3:44 pm

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# posted by

bob : 3:33 pm

hi my name is bob ,i have an original black and silver tubon from the sixties with original tube case for it ,it all works fine last time i tested it can anyone tell me how much it may be worth ? thanks bob

# posted by

bob : 3:58 pm

Hey!
I recently bought a pretty good condition TUBON on eBay.
It works and looks great.
Only problem: it doesn't have an ON-OFF switch!!!
Only way to switch it on or off is by removing the battery, after removing the circular right side panel.
Can this be right?
On the manual there's no switch mentioned either...
Hmmm...bizarre. Anyone know anything?
Cheers,
Danny Peyronel

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Unknown : 6:05 pm