By hearing this sound, my step father comes to mind. He used to play farfisa for The Idols and Demis Roussos. He had a great white Farfisa home, which we unfortunately gave away when he died. Ok, so many memories....For some reason I' m unboxing with you right now, LOL.
The utter and complete joy in your face, the rekindling of your happy (and angry) time from your childhood... the mellow tones, those terrible-good synthesized instruments, and how you wouldn't trade them for the best new digital synth on the market. I am living vicariously through your unbridled happiness at being reunited with the Bontempi. Please keep your Bontempi as it is, maybe make it work, lubricate the moving parts... but it is the foundation of the musical you. I kept thinking of the incidental/background music from the Napoleon Dynamite movie.
I am from Montreal and I used to work as a service electronic tech for the Canadian importer of anything Italian in the '70s, Bontempi, Farfisa, Solina and some others I forget (I'm old! :) ) This was fun watching! :)
That's part of my life too when i Was a kid me too have a Bontempi and it Was wonderfull for a little kid, maybe it falled me in love for the music and the keyboards, synth and any other electronic stuff teatrale make sound. And every time that i listen the Bossa nova rythm of Bontempi it remember me the sound of battery in the last track of the lp "Magnetic Field" by Jean Michel Jarre
Totally understand the feels. I rediscovered my old Casiotone CT-410V that I bought new in 1985 up in the attic. After much mechanical cleaning, canned air, and contact cleaner, I had it back in working order. It sounds 100% 80s and is super fun. I was happy to give it to my 9yo daughter who it enjoying making all manners of joyous noise now. :)
This moment...he turn the organ on in the studio. He start to move. This old electric organs are si simple and they are musically and they got GROOVE. ;) He smile from the moment he turn the organ on and can´t stop, more than words.
The first "band" I was in (as a "drummer" on wash powder boxes) used a Bontempi keyboard. Our keyboard player was very skilled at that time - now he is a lawyer. This is almost 40 years ago. Good memories :-)
You said you could play for ever, please do so I could listen forever. Your own Bontempi should be restored. It is part of your life and I wasn't writing this if you didn't play it as a kid. So it is (sort of) influencing our lives too.
My husband says to restore it to keep your childhood memory alive. You are a cutie now and were such a cutie then. Thanks for the video. What great memories. Chris and Dave
I would keep the old one for spares as well as the Sentimental / Nostalgic value of it. Reminds me of my very first Keyboard which I bought 2nd hand for £5 in 1978. It was a Magnus chord organ. That was enough to get me started and I bought my first Synth in 1984, A Korg Poly 800 which I still have and in working order :)
Back in the day I was OBSESSED with the Yamaha C55 organ. I never got one and at 8 years old clearly didnt realise the expense it would have been on my parents. I love discoveries like this!
Keep the old one just for the good times and keep using the new one for new music and Ideas. That's what I did. I started playing on a Casio SA-20, 30 years ago, the main amplifier board got fried because someone plugged in a 1.5 amp power supply on to it . I was able to find a spare one and just changed the board and is back from the dead. I sampled my favorite sounds to my Roland GW-7 and incorporate those to new tunes. Sometimes, just for the fun of it, I keep playing the SA-20. It's great. Great video, the excitement is priceless.
Yeah… you can’t gut that new one to fix your old one. If it were me, I’d clean the old one up a bit, and mount it in the wall as a “snapshot” memory of how it all began. 😉
I haved this organ when I'm 9-10 old. But, after a couple of years, my parents sold this for buy a new type of keyboard. You must know that my old house was near Civitavecchia and I like to think that your organ is my old loved Bontempi! Bye Gianni. Obviously, I love this video too!
My first decent keyboard was also a Bontempi organ; some console-style model. It was my Christmas present in 1979. The lead section and its gate-style envelope sounded terrible but there was a very warm bass /accompaniment sound on the lower brown keys that I really liked and I still remember it to this day. I found the exact same one on Facebook Marketplace and it was free. Had I had enough space, I'd have snapped it up. It preceded my first synth, a Juno-60, in 1985.
Incredible ... The Bontempi organs were musical cots for many of us Italians of the 70s / 80s. So many good memories for me too ... and nice that you dug it up from the past!!!
It's amazing you still had that botempi, and it's even more amazing that you still have recordings of yourself playing it all the way back when you were 6. This really was a joy to watch.
Mixman , i know the feeling , blessed . When old school oldies get to right smooth level , everybody smiles and all building feels like home . Good good vibrations , even Beach Boys wanna sing some back vocals again .
When I bought my first proper sampler in the mid-90s (an Emu ESI-32 w 32MB RAM/Turbo Expansion Kit) I didn't have very much to sample! So the first thing I ever sampled was a bunch of sounds and percussion from a friends Bontempi Minstrel Alpha. I finally bought a Gotek USB floppy emulator last week and dug out all my old floppies, much to my surprise, most of them still worked! Along with the Bontempi I also had a bunch of Casio VL-Tone disks. I really like the cheesy sounds and percussion, I've found that using the ASDR, portamento, modulation, filters & effects you can get some really nice useable sounds off these old Home Keyboards. I just need to sus out how to convert my old floppies to useable USB images. TBH I've not used a hardware sampler in decades, lol. Thank God I've still got the manual.
Date a Claudio una tastiera qualsiasi e lui crea subito qualcosa di magico... storia emozionante, i ricordi d'infanzia e l'inizio di una grande carriera! Mitico! ;-)
I had a Bontempi when I was 12 years old, with that keyboard I discovered my skills with music, it was my first serious contact with music. That Bontempi was a huge piece of furniture with 49 keys, with sounds of flute, violin, organ and some more; rhythms of jazz, waltz, tango, rock, slow rock and march. At the age of 14 I had an organ teacher and from then on my musical abilities were re-enhanced.
Sometimes all you need is a bass rhythm and melody, and you're jamming! Thing aounds like a trainwreck at first but you managed to pull it together and the nostalgia is real. I was entertained
Thank you so much for sharing Claudio,i totaly loved the video!!❤ That little Bontempi Organ played a major part in your life, it helped shape you into the very person that you are to this day and during the duration of the video i could see the emotion in your face as the memories came flooding back by hearing those wonderful sounds of your childhood. ...that little Bontempi Organ started you on a musical journey in which you should be very, very proud of! I think you should definitely restore it and have it put in a nice glass display cabinet and have it mounted on the wall inside your studio alongside the tapes you created and some pictures of you as a child. I think it would be very fitting indeed and a focal point for visitors to your studio in which will attract much attention and conversation and you can relive those memories time and time again when you speak about it. Thanks for sharing your memories with us all.🙏
As a kid I got a melodica, and as a result I can only play keyboard one-handed. I also keep huffing and puffing for no good reason. My Augustus Pablo impression is spot-on though! And for anybody who cares: yes, I still have that melodica, a Hohner Soprano. It still in tune even.
This is my favorite of your videos because there’s something really special about us connecting with our younger selves that brings us closer to the world of ideas. It’s a moment that can never really be duplicated but we know deep inside that there’s more truth there. Thats why it’s so much fun.
Questa è stata la mia prima tastiera, regalatami da mia nonna! Se non fosse stata per quella oggi farei altro nella vita. Grazie Claudio per questo bel ricordo! ❤️
Love watching relive your old memories! My first synth was a CZ-1000 and an Atari 520ST. So fun times to relive! God bless, and keep making the videos!
I was born in 1972 and got my first bontempi organ in the late 70s as well! I'm pretty sure it is in my mother's loft lol I just need to dig it out and get myself a model d :)
I loved this video. The look on your face when you fired it up and heard that sound for the first time..priceless. My first synth was a Roland JX3P. It was the very first thing I ever bought with my own money. Yes, I still have it, still play it, and yes, I still gig with it! It’s always been my baby.
so happy for you. I love the part you play it. beautiful smile :). I always tell everyone if you know harmony you only need a toy piano and nothing more. cheers
Fantastically nostalgic video as I too started my keyboard playing journey on a Bontempi, although mine was not as advanced as yours as it was a Bontempi 25 Hit Organ, a reed organ with red and black chord keys on the left and a three octave keyboard. Although the sound of the electric fan was almost as loud as the reeds it was blowing I still loved that thing as a kid and you’ve reminded me that mine is also still in the loft in my Mom’s house. I may have to go and rescue it soon, just to see if it brings the same smile to my face as your old keyboard did to you.
...at 14:28 min. i can see that you are happy....and the first thought in my mind was .....he was happy when he was a child and he remembers....and suddenly...YOU SAY IT, MAN...so i started to cry immediately....this is life, this is love, this is joy and happines 4EVER...i feel with you, brother : - ))
I’ve been subscribed for I don’t know how many years already. I love your enthusiasm and such comfort in your awkwardness. I’m gaining that same skill and luckily have found my own passion. My opinion is to transfer the internals of the working Bontempi into the visual representation of the beginning of your passion. To look down and see those stickers may be a huge comfort and certainly can’t be reproduced. Your past is your present and future.
Oh! Those bontempis... I've had beautiful moments around those synths through all my childhood and teen years . The ones that were air powered are so amazing!
I owned one of those! My parents bought me one when I was... younger (ahem!). I remember playing in my first "concerts" at school playing this beauty. Playing Starless by King Crimson or Letting go by Paul McCartney with this keyboard! Say no more! I even started composing with this one. I even have recordings. I learned to keep tempo thanks to the rhythm built-in thing. O, the remembrances! Thanks
Wonderful video! Thanks for sharing your memories. I still have the first keyboard I bought, a Casio 1000P, in 1982. It still works fine! I say keep the old Bontempi...memories are important.
I came across my old childhood Yamaha pss-780 at an auction recently and won it for £5. I had leant it to a friend about 20 years ago and had never seen it since. It was like meeting an old friend again.
Claudio, you have all that expensive equipment and you get total enjoyment form an old Bontempi organ, wow! I setup a home recording studio in a spare bedroom, purchased all sorts of fancy modern sequencers, then when I purchased an old 1992 Korg M1, that I wanted back in the day, but never had one, well needless to say, the rest of the equipment stays mostly idol, when I doo get tim I play the M1. Thanks Claudio for the video.
Wauw Bontempi, brings me back to 1976 when I got one's of the lower models, it had really air in it, you could hear a big fan flowing into the piece. And the controls were floating on air. Not sure where that went, probably to my nephew, who also was busy with music back then.
My first ever keyboard was a plastic Bontempi organ, absolutely loved it and taught myself every song in the book that came with it. After that my parents got me Yamaha until I got my first synth at 16. Always got love for Bontempi! 👊💜👌
It is funny because in France, we (I mean guys like me borned in 70s :D) use to say "it sounds like a bontempi" for musical instruments which sounds not really good. But the one you play has a very nice tone !!!
Molto emozionante! Non sapevo che la tua famiglia fosse di Civitavecchia, io abito a Ladispoli ma ho dei parenti che vivono lì. Anche io avevo un Bontempi, ma era un organo....con la ventola che pompava l'aria per farlo suonare. La parte accompagnamento, composta da bottoni, prevedeva solo gli accordi maggiori😁 Quanti ricordi....e anche la fisarmonica di papà, una Settimio Soprani, che qualche volta mi faceva provare...avevo 8 anni...... aveva paura la facessi cadere😁
Se non fosse stato per Bontempi, la mia vita non sarebbe potuta essere la stessa... Oh quel suono meraviglioso delle percussioni... mamma mia quanto ammmore...
When I see a Bontempi instrument, I immediately think about the good times when I was a child. I received a Bontempi reed organ powered by a fan (a noisy fan!!!) when I was 4 or 5 (I don’t remember the exact year, I think it was in 90 or 91). I still keep it for sentimental reasons (it’s in a storage room together with my Casio keyboard from a few years later and the boxes of my current gear).
I'm really lucky in that my first keyboard (a Goddard London upright grand piano) given to me when very young (4 or 5) by my dad ... is right here beside me. Despite being moved 4 times to different locations it still holds its tune nicely (it hasn't been tuned in 45 years at least). Nice video Claudio.
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Never seen him happier, and he's a naturally jolly fellow. Lovely.
By hearing this sound, my step father comes to mind. He used to play farfisa for The Idols and Demis Roussos. He had a great white Farfisa home, which we unfortunately gave away when he died. Ok, so many memories....For some reason I' m unboxing with you right now, LOL.
Notis Lalaitis? Respect!
Is his name Vangelis P. by any chance?
@@spu77 Yes, that was him. Thank you. He was the man!
@@bertvdlast His name was Notis Lalaitis.
No way!!!
The utter and complete joy in your face, the rekindling of your happy (and angry) time from your childhood... the mellow tones, those terrible-good synthesized instruments, and how you wouldn't trade them for the best new digital synth on the market. I am living vicariously through your unbridled happiness at being reunited with the Bontempi. Please keep your Bontempi as it is, maybe make it work, lubricate the moving parts... but it is the foundation of the musical you. I kept thinking of the incidental/background music from the Napoleon Dynamite movie.
Take shell off the OG, put it on the one that works.
Infectious giggles. Thank you once again
No matter wich instrument , Dr Mix sounds ever good because he loves music :)
He's obviously struggling with the Bontempi's crappy keys though.
I am from Montreal and I used to work as a service electronic tech for the Canadian importer of anything Italian in the '70s, Bontempi, Farfisa, Solina and some others I forget (I'm old! :) ) This was fun watching! :)
That's part of my life too when i Was a kid me too have a Bontempi and it Was wonderfull for a little kid, maybe it falled me in love for the music and the keyboards, synth and any other electronic stuff teatrale make sound. And every time that i listen the Bossa nova rythm of Bontempi it remember me the sound of battery in the last track of the lp "Magnetic Field" by Jean Michel Jarre
Totally understand the feels. I rediscovered my old Casiotone CT-410V that I bought new in 1985 up in the attic. After much mechanical cleaning, canned air, and contact cleaner, I had it back in working order. It sounds 100% 80s and is super fun. I was happy to give it to my 9yo daughter who it enjoying making all manners of joyous noise now. :)
Bontempi e la musica della meravigliosa serie "le avventure di Pinocchio". Che dire? Italia nel cuore ♥️
This moment...he turn the organ on in the studio. He start to move. This old electric organs are si simple and they are musically and they got GROOVE. ;)
He smile from the moment he turn the organ on and can´t stop, more than words.
The first "band" I was in (as a "drummer" on wash powder boxes) used a Bontempi keyboard. Our keyboard player was very skilled at that time - now he is a lawyer. This is almost 40 years ago. Good memories :-)
You said you could play for ever, please do so I could listen forever. Your own Bontempi should be restored. It is part of your life and I wasn't writing this if you didn't play it as a kid. So it is (sort of) influencing our lives too.
very well said!!
The joy from discovering your past is quite charming - I find myself smiling through the video!
My husband says to restore it to keep your childhood memory alive. You are a cutie now and were such a cutie then. Thanks for the video. What great memories. Chris and Dave
I would keep the old one for spares as well as the Sentimental / Nostalgic value of it. Reminds me of my very first Keyboard which I bought 2nd hand for £5 in 1978. It was a Magnus chord organ. That was enough to get me started and I bought my first Synth in 1984, A Korg Poly 800 which I still have and in working order :)
Back in the day I was OBSESSED with the Yamaha C55 organ. I never got one and at 8 years old clearly didnt realise the expense it would have been on my parents. I love discoveries like this!
Voilà Bontempi is the best song ! So too much! I remember my child période. See you my dear.
Keep the old one just for the good times and keep using the new one for new music and Ideas.
That's what I did.
I started playing on a Casio SA-20, 30 years ago, the main amplifier board got fried because someone plugged in a 1.5 amp power supply on to it .
I was able to find a spare one and just changed the board and is back from the dead. I sampled my favorite sounds to my Roland GW-7 and incorporate those to new tunes.
Sometimes, just for the fun of it, I keep playing the SA-20. It's great.
Great video, the excitement is priceless.
Tutti abbiamo avuto una Bontempi, da bambini o da ragazzi ❤
Yeah… you can’t gut that new one to fix your old one. If it were me, I’d clean the old one up a bit, and mount it in the wall as a “snapshot” memory of how it all began. 😉
You have passion. I tell my kids that passion can take you to places that you would never see otherwise... Stay passionate!
That lead sound at 13:23 is the sauce!!! 🔥🔥🔥love it
Like from Odessa, Ukraine!
Ciao Claudio, believe me, this one of the best videos you ever did!!! Keep your smiling!!!! It's so great!!!!
I haved this organ when I'm 9-10 old. But, after a couple of years, my parents sold this for buy a new type of keyboard. You must know that my old house was near Civitavecchia and I like to think that your organ is my old loved Bontempi! Bye Gianni. Obviously, I love this video too!
Getting tears in my eyes, because my all beginning was also a small bontempi orgen from my mother.
My first decent keyboard was also a Bontempi organ; some console-style model. It was my Christmas present in 1979. The lead section and its gate-style envelope sounded terrible but there was a very warm bass /accompaniment sound on the lower brown keys that I really liked and I still remember it to this day. I found the exact same one on Facebook Marketplace and it was free. Had I had enough space, I'd have snapped it up. It preceded my first synth, a Juno-60, in 1985.
I had a Juno 106 that I adored but traded it in a moment of stupidity. Wish I still had it 😭
I don't know why but I love these sounds :) Loving your joy!
Little Claudio would find todays Claudio pretty kick ass! And so do we!
Loved seeing you relive your childhood
Incredible ... The Bontempi organs were musical cots for many of us Italians of the 70s / 80s. So many good memories for me too ... and nice that you dug it up from the past!!!
It's amazing you still had that botempi, and it's even more amazing that you still have recordings of yourself playing it all the way back when you were 6.
This really was a joy to watch.
Old bontempi stuff is so cool!
Mixman , i know the feeling , blessed . When old school oldies get to right smooth level , everybody smiles and all building feels like home . Good good vibrations , even Beach Boys wanna sing some back vocals again .
My sister got a teeny tiny Bontempi for a Xmas present way back in the early 70s.❤️🙏🏽
This (along with Knight Rider Theme Recreated) are the best Dr. Mix has ever done
Whew! Thank you for not saying you’d not butcher the intact organ.
When I bought my first proper sampler in the mid-90s (an Emu ESI-32 w 32MB RAM/Turbo Expansion Kit) I didn't have very much to sample! So the first thing I ever sampled was a bunch of sounds and percussion from a friends Bontempi Minstrel Alpha. I finally bought a Gotek USB floppy emulator last week and dug out all my old floppies, much to my surprise, most of them still worked! Along with the Bontempi I also had a bunch of Casio VL-Tone disks. I really like the cheesy sounds and percussion, I've found that using the ASDR, portamento, modulation, filters & effects you can get some really nice useable sounds off these old Home Keyboards. I just need to sus out how to convert my old floppies to useable USB images. TBH I've not used a hardware sampler in decades, lol. Thank God I've still got the manual.
This video teaches us, we adults are nothing but big kids still loving to play our toys haha. I enjoyed watching!
I feel pure love vibes here man!
Date a Claudio una tastiera qualsiasi e lui crea subito qualcosa di magico... storia emozionante, i ricordi d'infanzia e l'inizio di una grande carriera! Mitico! ;-)
I love the Minimoog with the bontempi. Awesome!
I had a Bontempi when I was 12 years old, with that keyboard I discovered my skills with music, it was my first serious contact with music. That Bontempi was a huge piece of furniture with 49 keys, with sounds of flute, violin, organ and some more; rhythms of jazz, waltz, tango, rock, slow rock and march. At the age of 14 I had an organ teacher and from then on my musical abilities were re-enhanced.
I started out on a Bontempi keyboard too. Watching this really brings back memories!
Sometimes all you need is a bass rhythm and melody, and you're jamming! Thing aounds like a trainwreck at first but you managed to pull it together and the nostalgia is real.
I was entertained
Thank you so much for sharing Claudio,i totaly loved the video!!❤
That little Bontempi Organ played a major part in your life,
it helped shape you into the very person that you are to this day and during the duration of the video i could see the emotion in your face
as the memories came flooding back by hearing those wonderful sounds of your childhood.
...that little Bontempi Organ started you on a musical journey in which you should be very, very proud of!
I think you should definitely restore it and have it put in a nice glass display cabinet and have it mounted on the wall inside your studio alongside
the tapes you created and some pictures of you as a child.
I think it would be very fitting indeed and a focal point for visitors to your studio in which will attract much
attention and conversation and you can relive those memories time and time again when you speak about it.
Thanks for sharing your memories with us all.🙏
Memories of my childhood. Wow!
As a kid I got a melodica, and as a result I can only play keyboard one-handed. I also keep huffing and puffing for no good reason. My Augustus Pablo impression is spot-on though!
And for anybody who cares: yes, I still have that melodica, a Hohner Soprano. It still in tune even.
This is my favorite of your videos because there’s something really special about us connecting with our younger selves that brings us closer to the world of ideas. It’s a moment that can never really be duplicated but we know deep inside that there’s more truth there. Thats why it’s so much fun.
Questa è stata la mia prima tastiera, regalatami da mia nonna! Se non fosse stata per quella oggi farei altro nella vita. Grazie Claudio per questo bel ricordo! ❤️
Sei un mito!Sei il mio idolo!!!Un grande abbraccio dall’Italia!!!
You are gorgeous! It‘s just a joy watching you doing what you are doing! Just inspiring!
Love watching relive your old memories! My first synth was a CZ-1000 and an Atari 520ST. So fun times to relive! God bless, and keep making the videos!
The most productive & entertaining all around great person Dr mix
I had one too !! When I was 12-13 YO I spent hours on it ! Grazie Claudio !
I was born in 1972 and got my first bontempi organ in the late 70s as well!
I'm pretty sure it is in my mother's loft lol
I just need to dig it out and get myself a model d :)
I loved this video. The look on your face when you fired it up and heard that sound for the first time..priceless. My first synth was a Roland JX3P. It was the very first thing I ever bought with my own money. Yes, I still have it, still play it, and yes, I still gig with it! It’s always been my baby.
Yeah, really enjoyed just listening to him riff. Really talented guy..
so happy for you. I love the part you play it. beautiful smile :). I always tell everyone if you know harmony you only need a toy piano and nothing more. cheers
Bontempi ! = Memories !
Fantastically nostalgic video as I too started my keyboard playing journey on a Bontempi, although mine was not as advanced as yours as it was a Bontempi 25 Hit Organ, a reed organ with red and black chord keys on the left and a three octave keyboard. Although the sound of the electric fan was almost as loud as the reeds it was blowing I still loved that thing as a kid and you’ve reminded me that mine is also still in the loft in my Mom’s house. I may have to go and rescue it soon, just to see if it brings the same smile to my face as your old keyboard did to you.
Fantastico guardarti tornare bimbo con la Bontempi :-D
I began with a Bontempi too at the age of 8. Two years later I started learning organ at Conservatory!
It's incredible seeing you having so much effortless fun with such a simple instrument. I'm so jealous, I never learnt to play anything haha
Got Farfisa VIP and some Scandalli organ. Absolutely love them!
quello strumento descrive perfettamente tutta la strada che hai fatto. sono fiero di te, Claudio!
...at 14:28 min. i can see that you are happy....and the first thought in my mind was .....he was happy when he was a child and he remembers....and suddenly...YOU SAY IT, MAN...so i started to cry immediately....this is life, this is love, this is joy and happines 4EVER...i feel with you, brother : - ))
Awww ❤️
Good man, Claudio, nothing wrong with emotions.
I’ve been subscribed for I don’t know how many years already. I love your enthusiasm and such comfort in your awkwardness. I’m gaining that same skill and luckily have found my own passion. My opinion is to transfer the internals of the working Bontempi into the visual representation of the beginning of your passion. To look down and see those stickers may be a huge comfort and certainly can’t be reproduced. Your past is your present and future.
Nostalgia... I started too with a Bontempi in the 1981, wich was the best to play Popcorn!
Will be another amazing synth video.
I need more Bontempi in my life.😂 I was ear to ear all the time. You can fix, mod, tweak your old one maybe...😁🤙
Oh! Those bontempis... I've had beautiful moments around those synths through all my childhood and teen years . The ones that were air powered are so amazing!
You couldn't get the meloldy right? BONTEMPI !!! Thank you so much for this Video, Its my childhood...
I owned one of those! My parents bought me one when I was... younger (ahem!). I remember playing in my first "concerts" at school playing this beauty. Playing Starless by King Crimson or Letting go by Paul McCartney with this keyboard! Say no more! I even started composing with this one. I even have recordings. I learned to keep tempo thanks to the rhythm built-in thing. O, the remembrances!
Thanks
Wonderful video! Thanks for sharing your memories. I still have the first keyboard I bought, a Casio 1000P, in 1982. It still works fine! I say keep the old Bontempi...memories are important.
I came across my old childhood Yamaha pss-780 at an auction recently and won it for £5. I had leant it to a friend about 20 years ago and had never seen it since. It was like meeting an old friend again.
hated Bontempi when i first started using synths in 1979. now I love them lol
Oh my word...even just seeing the thumbnail and title for this video gave me a whoosh of nostalgia! Thanks so much! Sonique 🎹🎶👌
This wonderful synth explains the reason why Euro Pop became so popular!
Claudio, you have all that expensive equipment and you get total enjoyment form an old Bontempi organ, wow!
I setup a home recording studio in a spare bedroom, purchased all sorts of fancy modern sequencers, then when I purchased an old 1992 Korg M1, that I wanted back in the day, but never had one, well needless to say, the rest of the equipment stays mostly idol, when I doo get tim I play the M1. Thanks Claudio for the video.
It reminds me to my first BONTEMPI organ... I was like you a kid, learning to play and now I´m on synthesizers. Great!
It's an amazing video! I really liked your memories with your old organ. Thanks so much for your videos. Greetins from México
Wauw Bontempi, brings me back to 1976 when I got one's of the lower models, it had really air in it, you could hear a big fan flowing into the piece. And the controls were floating on air. Not sure where that went, probably to my nephew, who also was busy with music back then.
My first ever keyboard was a plastic Bontempi organ, absolutely loved it and taught myself every song in the book that came with it. After that my parents got me Yamaha until I got my first synth at 16. Always got love for Bontempi! 👊💜👌
What a lovely mellow sound.
70's synths are so much sexier than what we have now..
Me and the wife used to love stopping off in your home town on cruises....Such a great place ... 😃
More Young Claudio! Young Claudio is super cute.
Wonderful and in occasions very emotional to keep it up with your old Bontempi ! Siempreee !
It is funny because in France, we (I mean guys like me borned in 70s :D) use to say "it sounds like a bontempi" for musical instruments which sounds not really good.
But the one you play has a very nice tone !!!
Molto emozionante! Non sapevo che la tua famiglia fosse di Civitavecchia, io abito a Ladispoli ma ho dei parenti che vivono lì. Anche io avevo un Bontempi, ma era un organo....con la ventola che pompava l'aria per farlo suonare. La parte accompagnamento, composta da bottoni, prevedeva solo gli accordi maggiori😁 Quanti ricordi....e anche la fisarmonica di papà, una Settimio Soprani, che qualche volta mi faceva provare...avevo 8 anni...... aveva paura la facessi cadere😁
Buen día Dr Mix, saludos desde México
Se non fosse stato per Bontempi, la mia vita non sarebbe potuta essere la stessa...
Oh quel suono meraviglioso delle percussioni... mamma mia quanto ammmore...
When I see a Bontempi instrument, I immediately think about the good times when I was a child. I received a Bontempi reed organ powered by a fan (a noisy fan!!!) when I was 4 or 5 (I don’t remember the exact year, I think it was in 90 or 91). I still keep it for sentimental reasons (it’s in a storage room together with my Casio keyboard from a few years later and the boxes of my current gear).
I'm really lucky in that my first keyboard (a Goddard London upright grand piano) given to me when very young (4 or 5) by my dad ... is right here beside me. Despite being moved 4 times to different locations it still holds its tune nicely (it hasn't been tuned in 45 years at least). Nice video Claudio.
Absolutely charming. The marble floors at your parents place is amazing.Keep the old one for parts.
Love you DrMiX
So important to keep your stuff. dr mix is 10 years younger now
Ultimate Variete Circus organ! 👍
You even make such a dinosaur sound good. That's great! 🤩✨👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻