Almost unbelievable! These are the most beautiful sounding synths I have ever heard. So incredibly rich and sonorous in timbre and tone. I’m a guitarist but are all now on my wish-list.
@@jet_string One man's meat is another man's poison. To me these are what synthesisers sounded like back in the day and undoubtedly they are not up to the sonic complexities of synths today.
It’s times like these that as a young person I feel so grateful for the people before me who chose to collect, archive, and maintain artifacts of such specific and niche histories as these for us to not only remember, but re experiences today
hi Hainbach! i live in the Romagna region, some 100odd km north from Marche. During the very golden tourism/entertainment era, from late 50s to late 80s, we use to have the highest number of dancehalls and venues per capita in Europe! a big deal of the entertainment industry was live events and concerts; ok, mainly local folk and traditional dance, anyway it would heavily rely on local Marche gear manifacturers (they all started as accordion manifacturers, more or less; then switched to electronics, organs, guitars, amps, then synthesizers). The 90s wiped away everything, industries closed or had to reinvent themselves, such as Farfisa, which now produces CCTV systems. I still know old musicians, now in their 80s, 90s and retired, who never got rid of their incredible equipment; a lady recently sold me an amazing Trep Leslie cabinet (also made in Marche), from her husband collection. The work these guys are doing is uncomparable; it conveys craftmanship, art, design into one big adventure.
@@odinmp5 basically japanese, then korean, then chinese musical industries took over (At some point, i think around early 80s, even Roland built a plant there; it didn't last very long. They knew around there was THE place to aquire know-hows and stuff); you know, the same old story. Same for tourism and entertainment: Ibiza, Croatia, Greece emerged as new, way cheaper destinations.
Visually it's such a delight seeing this menagerie of unique typefaces, bizarre switches, strange lights and buttons. The old logos... the color palettes... the wood panels. There was so much experimentation going on in terms of the visual language of synthesis, in addition to the sounds.
damn true! this is a call: WHO WANTS TO HELP ME AND COLLABORATE WITH ME on a PROJECT about VISUAL LANGUAGE OF RARE SYNTHS? Let me know, I'd love to make it.
But it's also the reason they didn't sell too much, if you except some models like the Elka Synthex, the SIEL Opera 6 and subsequent variants, the Crumar bit99 and ds-2, and very but very few others, it was all a bunch of odd circuits. Some of those brands are unknown in Italy as well, and even if every of them could give you interesting experiences, you need to connect to their uniqueness, learn the path, learn how to make them sing one by one. From an industrial perspective, it's been basically a defeat.
Elka Synthex is a god among synths, hardly unknown... Siel Cruise is pretty common, in sweden there was a joke that they were worthless and I even saw a cartoon image of a Siel Cruise being used as a wheel block for a truck unloading a moog synth. I found a Siel Cruise at the junkyard electronics section full of leaves and water. It still worked after dried and plugged in. Sold it for $150. It was very limited but built like a tank with nice weighted switches.
@@F0nkyNinja the Cruise is a merge between the Orchestra2/OR400 and the MONO. But the polyphonic part is by far the most interesting, with its very odd setup, so basically you could settle for an Orchestra2/OR400 which is actually the same machine with a different aesthetic and a different visual language. Then they eventually switched to a more common single OSC analog path with the Opera6/KIWI/DK600/Expander6/DK700 which was actually the same machine in different versions and flavours before being acquired and shut by Roland. I think their last model (the DK700) was starting to be competitive and this is the reason to acquire and shut the line. Another god is the CRUMAR bit99/bit01, the bit01 is the rack version, don't confuse it with the bit-one that's a smaller keyboard synth. It featured curtis chipsets, and it sounded fat like a Prophet. Speaking of visual language: the bit99 was also sold with the LEM brand, with a very diasppointing aesthetic and visual language compared to the CRUMAR version, but the machine was the very same.
just consider Bob Moog did a lot of collabs with CRUMAR and Dave Smith developed a lot of things with SIEL ... non relevant things like the MIDI protocol ...
Like discovering synths for the first time. So many strange and beautiful instruments I've never heard of. The Polychrome and Synthex were probably my favourite. Beautifully shot film too, really enjoying for both the eyes and ears. Thanks for making this!
Bravissimo! Fabulous collection of Italo synths!!! And the winner is:...1°: CRB Computer Band 2000, 2°: Farfisa Polychrome and 3° for always.... Elka Synthex!!! Great job you have done to revive musical cultural heritage! I am definitely fan !!!
Superb collection. I love future future sounds as it was conceived back then... I do not mean i like all synths but 6 or 7 are heaven. Different players/operators... now ragazzi let me go back to look for lucio fulci's musician. And François de Roubaix's italian synths. Ciao bravo !!!
As a former music store employee, I have to admit that these synthesizers must have been a milestone in their day. Solton was for me the benchmark of Italian technical thought. Thank you very much for this video. It is a shame that Yamaha, Roland, Sequential Cirquits are known as the first and the best. This is not entirely true, as you can see.
SIEL, ELKA, CRUMAR, FARFISA, SOLTON, CRB, FBT... Marchi storici in parte scomparsi che hanno prodotto sintetizzatori usati in passato da grandi artisti (Synthex, Polychrome, ecc). Complimenti per il video. Un bel tuffo nella memoria!
I'm a proud owner of some Italian great gear. GEM PK4900, Crumar Multiman S/2, Logan String Melody 2 and a Farfisa Combo ... Love them all to the death ! ....
Sweet Jesus, biggest trove of hidden treasure I've ever seen - not a single piece of this hardware should be lost to history. Unbelievable... What can we do to help resurrect?
I think the Elka Wilgamat 3 sums this collection up: 50% haunting analog synth tones, 50% Let's Rhumba! Seriously, though: great work on assembling this valuable collection, and there are some fantastic sounds here. The Crumar DS-2 appears to be the Behringer Poly D's father, the Synthex is great and that Farfisa Polychrome is just *gorgeous*.
“It’s, OBERON!! OBERON! OBERON?!” Where do I know this from?! I just remembered it’s a Legendary Weapon (also known as Ordinatus Armageddon) on a planet in 40k lore. FARFISA, I say!! But, geez. Oh my goodness…. I am crying! That one that says diamond on the side… I really hope that the Synthesizer they call Uranus is returned to its rightful owner, or someone as competent at these guys for the sake of It’s preservation and longevity. THANKS AGAIN FOR SHARING!!
Super-cool! Boy, the Italians really have a sense of design. These synths look gorgeous, with panels like a spaceship out of BARBARELLA. Interesting that the Marche region synths seem to use some noise added to the input of the voltage controlled oscillators to generate deliberately drifting pitches.
All of these synths were incredible, but my favorites were these: CRB Oberon, CRB Computer Band 2000, Crumar DS-2, Farfisa Polychrome, Elks Synthex, Crumar DP-50, and the Siel Cruise. Every single one of these synths should be sampled and then put into a vst, I would surely purchase it in a heartbeat!
That CRB Computerband sounded amazing! And the Polychrome vocal chorus is the most haunting synth sound out there.The Polychome sounds like it was all over the movie soundtrack of the Warriors.
I immediately associate quirky 70's Italian organs, rhythm machines and synths with Krautrock and I wish someone would bring some of those ideas back into modern instruments. I would snap up an analog arranger/groovebox type thing in a heartbeat.
How to forget Farfisa and Korg Italia, that i had the honor to work for in a presentation in 1997 - then am from one of the accordion lost capitals (Mondolfo) but that is another story...
I love the fact that Hainbach plays synths like most of us do. I hate synth demos where the player just noodles up and down playing lead lines. Like, we get it Freddy fast fingers, you're a great keyboardist but i want to hear what it sounds like in the average person's hands. Just give me some drones and slow moving chords.
Fantastic, I never knew the history and diversity of the Italian synthesizer industry outside of my Jen 1000, which as a mark of the quality of their craftsmanship, is still working well after 40 years in my occasionally careless hands.
Amazing!, I have never seen so many synths that I have not heard of before. Thank you for showing this. I wonder if Mr Behringer will see this video and start making clones! . eheheh.
When I was a kid we went out with my parents and bought an Elka EK22 ..... for me to learn to play the piano! None of us knew anything about synths at the time. Ended up unfortunately selling it when we left the country!
I biked to a cafe nearby today and they just randomly had a Orchestra 2 by SIEL in the corner, that they let me play around with a bit. Immediately remembered this video.
These are a revelation, the variety and quirkiness and the sheer rawness of these machines are dare I say it, better than the more well known synthesizers. Plus the designs are just awesome!
Ach Mensch ist das schön 😊👍 Macht glücklich, das sieht man. Herrlich. Der String synth Vocoder mit detune ist ein warer Traum. Der detune moment erinnerte mich an ein synclavier so ein klitze, damit kann man so tolle Sachen machen 😍 Danke das du das mit uns teilst😘
Super Video! Den Siel Cruise hatte ich früher (vor ~ 20 Jahren). Elgam Carousel und CRB Computerband kannte ich bereits. Ebenso den ELKA Synthex, da ein Kumpel von mir einen hat. Der Rest der vorgestellten Geräte war mir völlig unbekannt.
That CRB Computer Band 2000 is the most delightfully Italian thing I've heard in years. I absolutely love it. And that Polychrome has some _very_ Tomita vibes.
This video is a great utility if nothing else! I've spent countless hours looking into synths of this nature that crop up on eBay (just out of curiosity). These guys have got the good majority of them here in the museum and they've clearly learnt how to play each unique one beautifully. It's nice to finally hear a lot of these via a line input also, without the shakey handheld footage. Sound astonishing!!!
It was about 1979 when I got the chance to play with the CRB Computer Band 2000 in a music store in Flensburg. It was amazing what this instrument could do. Never heard about CRB before (and after) so I'm glad to see this instrument here again. Thank you.
uff man thanks for this video, I recently discovered the amazing world of synths and your video blew my mind!!!!... I am living here in Emilia Romagna and as soon as they open a new exhibit I will go for sure.
Welson Syntex as a Bass/Leed?... With a MIDI interface... KILLER! With a Nice Drumsequenser to Control Ableton. I could play all day long. The Sound of this thing... Mann! I would sink into another dimension.
This is fascinating stuff! I saw your live show at Ancona first, but now i see that you incorporated the sounds of these synths in your live show. Brilliant how you did that!!
I think I can understand how one can fall in love with such beautiful instruments, those wild range of outstanding sounds and this array of weird experiments that stimulates creativity so much. I am so very glad I discovered this part of synth history, and I think you are one of the few that can communicate the beauty of these machines. Thank you so much!!!
"The Italians .... always the Italians " from Amadues Mozart film . They look sooooooo cool and sound great. 😎. The Italians have style and art in their blood.
All you see in the video is the heritage of the great italian accordion manufacturing tradition, that took place in the same area in the first half of the last century. In the '60s and '70s the accordion industry was hit by a huge crisis, mostly due to the new musical genres that made the accordion "demode" and required new musical instruments, especially electric guitars & basses, portable (combo) organs and synthsizers. Many accordion manufacturers (Farfisa, Crucianelli/Crumar, Elka, etc.) started producing this new kind of instruments, which were used and loved by the most prominent prog and new wave italian bands and had some success also abroad. Today these synths, organs, guitar and basses are precious vintage gems and they're very hard to find, part due to their limited production in terms of numbers, part because they were less "trendy" than ther american and japanese competitors.
Full video of the live show: th-cam.com/video/vawil5C_bhE/w-d-xo.html
Almost unbelievable! These are the most beautiful sounding synths I have ever heard. So incredibly rich and sonorous in timbre and tone. I’m a guitarist but are all now on my wish-list.
Thanks, much appreciated, hard to get music like this available let alone in person.
Hainbach, besorg UNBEDINGT die Baupläne für den CRB Computerband 2000, das Teil ist so genial, das müssen wir ins neue Jahrtausend holen^^
@@jet_string One man's meat is another man's poison. To me these are what synthesisers sounded like back in the day and undoubtedly they are not up to the sonic complexities of synths today.
Maybe it's because they remind me of two particularly great early John Carpenter movies - Assault on Precinct 13 and DarkStar.
Italy: a place where even synthesizers are specially dramatic.
Sounds of Crumar Bit O1 are very interessant, GEM produced also good machines... ELKA 44...
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pretty accurate 😉
It’s times like these that as a young person I feel so grateful for the people before me who chose to collect, archive, and maintain artifacts of such specific and niche histories as these for us to not only remember, but re experiences today
Thank you!
Thank you so much, we're delighted by you post!
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This historic subject deserves a large coffee table book with an enclosed CD.
I absolutely agree.
@@Hainbach i would buy too. This is $100 paper materials
God yeah, it would be an amazing must have.
100% FACTS
Great idea.
Heaven is a place where all the rare Italian synthesizers are collected and restored
I got this as heaven too.
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Where all the rare Italians* are collected and restorred
That CRB Computer Band 2000 is a new wave band in a single box, love it.
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hi Hainbach! i live in the Romagna region, some 100odd km north from Marche. During the very golden tourism/entertainment era, from late 50s to late 80s, we use to have the highest number of dancehalls and venues per capita in Europe! a big deal of the entertainment industry was live events and concerts; ok, mainly local folk and traditional dance, anyway it would heavily rely on local Marche gear manifacturers (they all started as accordion manifacturers, more or less; then switched to electronics, organs, guitars, amps, then synthesizers). The 90s wiped away everything, industries closed or had to reinvent themselves, such as Farfisa, which now produces CCTV systems. I still know old musicians, now in their 80s, 90s and retired, who never got rid of their incredible equipment; a lady recently sold me an amazing Trep Leslie cabinet (also made in Marche), from her husband collection. The work these guys are doing is uncomparable; it conveys craftmanship, art, design into one big adventure.
Thank you for taking the time to write this - it is like getting to know the history more
Dall'era delle balere all'era del "serviva un tedesco per farci riscoprire le nostre vecchie glorie" :(
What happened in the 90s? What was the reason for things stopping?
@@odinmp5 basically japanese, then korean, then chinese musical industries took over (At some point, i think around early 80s, even Roland built a plant there; it didn't last very long. They knew around there was THE place to aquire know-hows and stuff); you know, the same old story. Same for tourism and entertainment: Ibiza, Croatia, Greece emerged as new, way cheaper destinations.
@@odinmp5 And now all that's left is seaside, open air mega nightclubs which acted as superspreaders during Covid
Visually it's such a delight seeing this menagerie of unique typefaces, bizarre switches, strange lights and buttons. The old logos... the color palettes... the wood panels. There was so much experimentation going on in terms of the visual language of synthesis, in addition to the sounds.
yeah I love that retro futuristic look of the sixties and seventies!
damn true! this is a call: WHO WANTS TO HELP ME AND COLLABORATE WITH ME on a PROJECT about VISUAL LANGUAGE OF RARE SYNTHS? Let me know, I'd love to make it.
But it's also the reason they didn't sell too much, if you except some models like the Elka Synthex, the SIEL Opera 6 and subsequent variants, the Crumar bit99 and ds-2, and very but very few others, it was all a bunch of odd circuits.
Some of those brands are unknown in Italy as well, and even if every of them could give you interesting experiences, you need to connect to their uniqueness, learn the path, learn how to make them sing one by one.
From an industrial perspective, it's been basically a defeat.
Elka Synthex is a god among synths, hardly unknown... Siel Cruise is pretty common, in sweden there was a joke that they were worthless and I even saw a cartoon image of a Siel Cruise being used as a wheel block for a truck unloading a moog synth. I found a Siel Cruise at the junkyard electronics section full of leaves and water. It still worked after dried and plugged in. Sold it for $150. It was very limited but built like a tank with nice weighted switches.
@@F0nkyNinja the Cruise is a merge between the Orchestra2/OR400 and the MONO. But the polyphonic part is by far the most interesting, with its very odd setup, so basically you could settle for an Orchestra2/OR400 which is actually the same machine with a different aesthetic and a different visual language.
Then they eventually switched to a more common single OSC analog path with the Opera6/KIWI/DK600/Expander6/DK700 which was actually the same machine in different versions and flavours before being acquired and shut by Roland.
I think their last model (the DK700) was starting to be competitive and this is the reason to acquire and shut the line.
Another god is the CRUMAR bit99/bit01, the bit01 is the rack version, don't confuse it with the bit-one that's a smaller keyboard synth. It featured curtis chipsets, and it sounded fat like a Prophet.
Speaking of visual language: the bit99 was also sold with the LEM brand, with a very diasppointing aesthetic and visual language compared to the CRUMAR version, but the machine was the very same.
Il Welson Syntex.... quanti ricordi!
7:30 That CRB computerband 2000 is amazing!
I want one NOW!!!
Put me down for a pre-order..I’ll give blood for it, haha
@@aseomg Screw blood! Who needs two kidneys anyways, would be worth it
Good for my tarantella sessions!
This is so refreshing after constant overdose of Prophets, Oberheims, Moogs and Jupiters... Cheers! S
just consider Bob Moog did a lot of collabs with CRUMAR and Dave Smith developed a lot of things with SIEL ... non relevant things like the MIDI protocol ...
Lol
Sooo... everything I've loved listening to as a child was made with the result of crazy Italians... awesome
Like discovering synths for the first time. So many strange and beautiful instruments I've never heard of.
The Polychrome and Synthex were probably my favourite.
Beautifully shot film too, really enjoying for both the eyes and ears. Thanks for making this!
Thank you Alex! In wish I had more time in the Museo, but flight delays gave me only this brief window. You would love it there.
@@Hainbach Hopefully you can come back to discover some more italy sonic weirdness! The door is open as you know... :D
Alex, if you want to make a journey into the bizarre world of italian synths, you're welcome. We'd be
be delighted by your visit! :D
Is that a knock off of an ARP 2600 module at the top of the screen @ 0:47...???
@@alexandra.willitts6988 Yess is the 2600 replica "Domila600" made in Italy by Mirco Trentin
I was in Ancona! Great job! Finally the italian synthesizers are taking their revenge! :-) Lunga vita al Museo del Synth Marchigiano
GoLizLiAwffsss!
I was just thinking about you and le true electronique watching this video, and here you are in the comments section! Hahahhaha noice
Bravissimo! Fabulous collection of Italo synths!!! And the winner is:...1°: CRB Computer Band 2000, 2°: Farfisa Polychrome and 3° for always.... Elka Synthex!!!
Great job you have done to revive musical cultural heritage! I am definitely fan !!!
Superb collection. I love future future sounds as it was conceived back then...
I do not mean i like all synths but 6 or 7 are heaven.
Different players/operators... now ragazzi let me go back to look for lucio fulci's musician. And François de Roubaix's italian synths. Ciao bravo !!!
Richard Wright, Paul Manzarek... They loved Farfisa.
Hi, Hainbach. It's good to have you back.
As a former music store employee, I have to admit that these synthesizers must have been a milestone in their day. Solton was for me the benchmark of Italian technical thought. Thank you very much for this video. It is a shame that Yamaha, Roland, Sequential Cirquits are known as the first and the best. This is not entirely true, as you can see.
VotizMileBomboJassTikoT1mexAZ?
GREAT !!!!!!! bravissimi i "ragazzi" del museo del synth marchigiano
Grazz! :D
SIEL, ELKA, CRUMAR, FARFISA, SOLTON, CRB, FBT... Marchi storici in parte scomparsi che hanno prodotto sintetizzatori usati in passato da grandi artisti (Synthex, Polychrome, ecc). Complimenti per il video. Un bel tuffo nella memoria!
I'm a proud owner of some Italian great gear. GEM PK4900, Crumar Multiman S/2, Logan String Melody 2 and a Farfisa Combo ... Love them all to the death ! ....
:D
Sweet Jesus, biggest trove of hidden treasure I've ever seen - not a single piece of this hardware should be lost to history. Unbelievable... What can we do to help resurrect?
I have a feeling that - one day - Behringer will clone them all... ;-)))
@@sauermusicDE it's not resurrection, it's like lifeless zombies... :D
I think the Elka Wilgamat 3 sums this collection up: 50% haunting analog synth tones, 50% Let's Rhumba!
Seriously, though: great work on assembling this valuable collection, and there are some fantastic sounds here. The Crumar DS-2 appears to be the Behringer Poly D's father, the Synthex is great and that Farfisa Polychrome is just *gorgeous*.
"50% haunting analog synth tones, 50% Let's Rhumba" man, you've found the perfect quote! :D
I love the sound of Farfisa organ on Klaus Schulze 70's albums. This Italian synth is in my opinion the essential part of the Berlin school genre.
I think the same
Agreeed👌🏼 Klaus use crumar synths too ✌✌
he had up to 3 Farfisa Syntorchestras. :)
@@SulatronRecords 👌🏼 💙them
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This is essentially one of the only documentaries on the subject, very good!
“It’s, OBERON!! OBERON! OBERON?!” Where do I know this from?!
I just remembered it’s a Legendary Weapon (also known as Ordinatus Armageddon) on a planet in 40k lore.
FARFISA, I say!!
But, geez. Oh my goodness…. I am crying!
That one that says diamond on the side…
I really hope that the Synthesizer they call Uranus is returned to its rightful owner, or someone as competent at these guys for the sake of It’s preservation and longevity.
THANKS AGAIN FOR SHARING!!
wow the choir voices on the farfisa synth give me chills. really cool synth.
CRB Computer Band 2000 was mind blowing. Automatic diamond-level music.
Super-cool! Boy, the Italians really have a sense of design. These synths look gorgeous, with panels like a spaceship out of BARBARELLA. Interesting that the Marche region synths seem to use some noise added to the input of the voltage controlled oscillators to generate deliberately drifting pitches.
21:52 That is possibly the most beautiful vocal synthesis I have ever heard, wow
Agreed! If I could have one instrument from that collection, then it would have to be that one. The choral sounds were incredible.
@@MrCucumber416 I own (and love) a Polmoog Keyboard, and I'd happily exchange it for a Polychrome!
@@chriswareham reminds me so strongly of Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. Specifically the Temple of Time
I have that brown beast in my studio, lovely piece of engineering! Nice to see one on youtube, they seems to be quite rare.
yes the Polychrome Farfisa, I love it
Mind. Blown.
this is up there with one of the greatest synth videos on youtube
Amazing just simply amazing
All of these synths were incredible, but my favorites were these: CRB Oberon, CRB Computer Band 2000, Crumar DS-2, Farfisa Polychrome, Elks Synthex, Crumar DP-50, and the Siel Cruise. Every single one of these synths should be sampled and then put into a vst, I would surely purchase it in a heartbeat!
Vielen Dank , sehr interressantes Video . Tolle Instrumente die damals dort entwickelt wurden.
Vielen Dank!
This was really special! The CRB Computer Band 2000 is such a lovely piece of hardware and so much character!
Can hook ME awe NT?.. novellsetware
That CRB Computerband sounded amazing! And the Polychrome vocal chorus is the most haunting synth sound out there.The Polychome sounds like it was all over the movie soundtrack of the Warriors.
@0:33 : 😮 a Welson! My first keyboard/electric organ was a Welson! Not this model, but so stunning seeing this brand again after all these years!
I immediately associate quirky 70's Italian organs, rhythm machines and synths with Krautrock and I wish someone would bring some of those ideas back into modern instruments. I would snap up an analog arranger/groovebox type thing in a heartbeat.
I'm Italian, and I had NO IDEA this museum existed. Why do we always have to learn about our excellence through foreigners? ;)
We make what we can, and now, luckily you're aware of the museum! :D
@@paolobragaglia Grazie. Figurati. Mi son anche iscritto al canale. Anzi, se vi serve una mano, più che volentieri. Buona giornata,
@@DarkSideofSynth ma certo!
Oberon and farfisa synthorchestra are my dream vintage Italian synths
What incredible Italian synthétizeur collection !!!
Those Crumar's sound like the French band Air. Wonderful video.
That CRB Voce-Strings synthesizer was the coolest sounding thing I ever heard!!
Awesome collection!!👌🏼👌🏼💚💚💚
Icredible devices, sounds are just awesome
Mi Piace la Storia Dei Sinthesizers mi riporta agli anni 70/80 con la scoperta di migliaia di nuove sonorita..Bei tempi..
How to forget Farfisa and Korg Italia, that i had the honor to work for in a presentation in 1997 - then am from one of the accordion lost capitals (Mondolfo) but that is another story...
I love the fact that Hainbach plays synths like most of us do. I hate synth demos where the player just noodles up and down playing lead lines. Like, we get it Freddy fast fingers, you're a great keyboardist but i want to hear what it sounds like in the average person's hands. Just give me some drones and slow moving chords.
But solos are fun
@@FranD995 They have their place. Just not when trying to discern the nuances of a synth tone.
i feel you.... please, stop the Jordan Rudes demo style
The worst is when they're demoing some monster polysynth like the Moog One by playing monophonic *crappy widdly blues solos*. Get a guitar, dude.
and how often are official demo's filled with jazzy stuff.... yeah, nice presets.... "looking at Korg, Roland..."..... soooo boring
Fantastic, I never knew the history and diversity of the Italian synthesizer industry outside of my Jen 1000, which as a mark of the quality of their craftsmanship, is still working well after 40 years in my occasionally careless hands.
these things are totally indestructible.
Wow. Amazing video. Thank you.
I used to own a Welson guitar. The knobs are very recognizable. Bellissimo!
Amazing!, I have never seen so many synths that I have not heard of before. Thank you for showing this.
I wonder if Mr Behringer will see this video and start making clones! . eheheh.
When I was a kid we went out with my parents and bought an Elka EK22 ..... for me to learn to play the piano! None of us knew anything about synths at the time. Ended up unfortunately selling it when we left the country!
I biked to a cafe nearby today and they just randomly had a Orchestra 2 by SIEL in the corner, that they let me play around with a bit. Immediately remembered this video.
This collection is insane
I get goosebumps with all that analog synths tones I wish I had all them.
This video was a great trip through the history of synt music, thank you everyone specially to Riccardo Pietroni…
Massimo… nice to see you here!
Hainbach. What a guy. Love the shorts and your Tandberg Model 11.
I got a Bontempi HB 412 (1983) Made in italy. Really simple but a completely analog synth.
These are a revelation, the variety and quirkiness and the sheer rawness of these machines are dare I say it, better than the more well known synthesizers. Plus the designs are just awesome!
See the HydraSynth and you may change your mind.
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@@judethree4405 medUsawzThompzoneHoliDaze...
@@steveclem7873 ??????
I play the accordion and Castelfidardo was one of the pilgrimage I have to do. Now I have to go to the synth museum as well!
The accordion industry in Castelfidardo is the origin of all these machines...
Fantastic !
Ach Mensch ist das schön 😊👍
Macht glücklich, das sieht man. Herrlich.
Der String synth Vocoder mit detune ist ein warer Traum.
Der detune moment erinnerte mich an ein synclavier so ein klitze, damit kann man so tolle Sachen machen 😍
Danke das du das mit uns teilst😘
So many amazing sounds - love that Crumar-DS-2!
I fell in love with each and every one of this machines.
Super Video! Den Siel Cruise hatte ich früher (vor ~ 20 Jahren). Elgam Carousel und CRB Computerband kannte ich bereits. Ebenso den ELKA Synthex, da ein Kumpel von mir einen hat. Der Rest der vorgestellten Geräte war mir völlig unbekannt.
Farfisa Polychrome is beautiful the sound man
Yes! The most gorgeous string / choir synth
Boards of Canada the group !definitely using this synth CRB URANUS 2
This was basically 40 minutes of jamming and thats great
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They need a museum of electronic historical italian instruments !
We're trying! :D
massive sounds from this old machines , great sounding
They sound so good
10:00 - 10:30 is one of my favorite moments from any of your videos
The vocal chorus on the Farfisa polychrome was beautiful
Wonderful to see that Jen SX 2000 in the beginning ❤️. My first synth, still going strong and frequently used!
I had to come back for another listen of this. My ears made me do it.
It is honestly one of the best synth videos ive ever seen and heard.
CRB voice-strings sounds so beautiful.
FBT synther 2000
Farfisa Polychrome
I want that CRB computerband 2000 thingy soo bad now.
As a person with decades of synth experience, this was a pleasure to watch! So many I haven’t ever heard of. Thanks for putting this together!
I'm blasted! So many interesting instruments, a real treasure trove. The Melloncelli is probably the best instruments to play Stockhausen's Licht.
That CRB Computer Band 2000 is the most delightfully Italian thing I've heard in years. I absolutely love it. And that Polychrome has some _very_ Tomita vibes.
This video is a great utility if nothing else! I've spent countless hours looking into synths of this nature that crop up on eBay (just out of curiosity). These guys have got the good majority of them here in the museum and they've clearly learnt how to play each unique one beautifully.
It's nice to finally hear a lot of these via a line input also, without the shakey handheld footage. Sound astonishing!!!
the craftmanship is crazy beautiful. Didnt know that my country produced these kind of machines. Thank you Hainbach!
Incredible! A whole new set of synths ive never heard of with incredible sounds and performance tools.
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It was about 1979 when I got the chance to play with the CRB Computer Band 2000 in a music store in Flensburg. It was amazing what this instrument could do. Never heard about CRB before (and after) so I'm glad to see this instrument here again. Thank you.
Thank You for sharing this fascinating content 🎹
uff man thanks for this video, I recently discovered the amazing world of synths and your video blew my mind!!!!... I am living here in Emilia Romagna and as soon as they open a new exhibit I will go for sure.
Welson Syntex as a Bass/Leed?... With a MIDI interface... KILLER! With a Nice Drumsequenser to Control Ableton. I could play all day long. The Sound of this thing... Mann! I would sink into another dimension.
The Syntex originally did’t have a midi interface but is easy to retrofit.
This is fascinating stuff! I saw your live show at Ancona first, but now i see that you incorporated the sounds of these synths in your live show. Brilliant how you did that!!
I think I can understand how one can fall in love with such beautiful instruments, those wild range of outstanding sounds and this array of weird experiments that stimulates creativity so much.
I am so very glad I discovered this part of synth history, and I think you are one of the few that can communicate the beauty of these machines. Thank you so much!!!
The industry is booming and a comeback might be possible and successful ...
ahh synth heaven. ⛅️
That digitana T-shirt is fantastic!
it's my pride! :D
I have an Italian GEM Equinox 61, and I adore it!
Fantastic. I like it!!!
"The Italians .... always the Italians " from Amadues Mozart film .
They look sooooooo cool and sound great. 😎.
The Italians have style and art in their blood.
All you see in the video is the heritage of the great italian accordion manufacturing tradition, that took place in the same area in the first half of the last century. In the '60s and '70s the accordion industry was hit by a huge crisis, mostly due to the new musical genres that made the accordion "demode" and required new musical instruments, especially electric guitars & basses, portable (combo) organs and synthsizers. Many accordion manufacturers (Farfisa, Crucianelli/Crumar, Elka, etc.) started producing this new kind of instruments, which were used and loved by the most prominent prog and new wave italian bands and had some success also abroad. Today these synths, organs, guitar and basses are precious vintage gems and they're very hard to find, part due to their limited production in terms of numbers, part because they were less "trendy" than ther american and japanese competitors.