The Sad Story of the Downfall of an Industry | ELKA EH105 and Bontempi MRS-49

This video took me way too much time!

0:00 Intro
1:29 The rise of the Marche synths
2:53 The golden era
3:29 The keyboard revolution
4:29 Witness No. 1: Bontempi MRS-49
5:55 Witness No. 2: ELKA EH105
8:11 The end of an industry
9:11 Outro

Most importantly, check out the videos from ‪@Hainbach‬ and ‪@AlexBallMusic‬ about the Marche synths:
Hainbach on Synths:    • The Forgotten Synthesizers Of Marche Region  
Hainbach on Drum machines:    • Vintage Drum Machines Of Italy  
Hainbach on the Syn-Ket:    • This Forgotten Synth Was Ahead of Its Time  
Alex Ball:    • I visited the Italian Synth Museum!  

And check out the Museo del Synth Marcheggiano, without it nothing of this would have been possible: https://www.museodelsynth.org/

Other important ressources used in this video (mostly in italian):
Marche Organ and Synth companies: https://www.capponiclaudio.it/storia-...
Italian Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distret...
The Syn-Ket: https://120years.net/wordpress/the-sy...

All other ressources in the order of appearance (also check the Video watermarks):
Maps: https://earth.google.com/web/
Bontempi website: https://www.bontempi.com/en/
Swiss calssified ads: https://www.tutti.ch/de/
Eko Factory: https://www.ekoguitars.it/en/about
Italy in 1960: https://archive.org/details/filmcolle..., Filmed by Anton Bakels Zandvoort on 16mm 16mm Filmdigitizing: www.cinepro.nl
John Paul Jones' Farfisa: http://www.geocities.ws/jpjkeys/farfi...
Farfisa Factory: https://www.lieveverbeeck.eu/pianofor...
Elka image ©CC2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CRB image ©CC4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Eko image ©CC2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Siel image ©CC2.0: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9943978...
Bontempi ad 1977:    • spot organo bontempi 1977  
Another Farfisa Factory picture: http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d...
Simon the Magpie on fan organs:    • spot organo bontempi 1977  
Another Elka image ©CC2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Elka Rhapsody image ©CC3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Jean-Michel Jarre ©CC2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Elka Factory ©CC4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Gem keyboard image ©CC4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Fatar's broken website: http://www.fatar.com/home_fatar.htm

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