1st Season Pokemon List

Cicala [14] Keyboards Toys - Bontempi GA 8240 - Cobol

This tool (this guitar in particular) has an incredible story.

It 's not said a day does not tell you about in detail.

At the heart of her story, the extraordinary and of course Mr. Fiordomo Bontempi (and Olda Limax and MangaLuca present during the its discovery. Pure Edward who assisted me throughout the post-discovery).

And it 'the Bontempi / Farfisa I want to talk. Not of its official history (and in fact I do not know I could say nonsense), but from what you perceive.

Without the media clamor nor particularly urgent Bontempi there for 40 years producing educational and professional bodies by specializing before and after the educational segment of the game and always devoted to musical instruments. But to think that for 40 years, many Italian musicians have taken the first steps thanks to an instrument Bontempi and 'reductive given that this company sells almost everything in the world [on ebay I saw teaching Bontempi guitars sold in the U.S. dating back to the Eighties never seen (at least by me) in Italy].

The segment of music education and 'occupied by various companies in the world: Casio and Yamaha to name the two most' notes. Among these immense and multifaceted and Japanese multinationals' managed to survive and evolve the Bontempi contributing, in my view, the ideas and the imagination of designers who make it, in many cases, unique (and sometimes even bizarre) and its products.

In my personal top 10 toy keypads are at least 3 Bontempi (produced between the eighties and nineties) while the rest of the chart if the others vying for five or six brands.

Case (rare) to be virtuous in terms of production and innovation without (at least known to me) arrogance drip INVES state or special media. Too bad you did not mention the most 'frequently as an example to inspire them.

Now to GA 8240.

Extraordinary toy replica of the Fender Jaguar but smaller by about two thirds compared to the historic guitar (a Fender Jaguar regalatemi so 'I can take pictures together and give you an idea more 'realistic size). Entirely of plastic and the hollow body. The single coil and humbucking are decorative. The guitar and 'amplified with two internal microphones. The microphones amplify any action is practiced on the pickguard (in particular) and a bit 'all over the body of the guitar (in general). Attach strings to real electric guitar.

volume slider. System tuning indicator and lever to lower octave. Jack-in microphone or other instruments. Of course, jack-out.

How 'expected, and the guitar' sound rather heavy and 'very cordoso (I would say also Fender Jaguar in this).

Unfortunately, over time the plastic handle referred to the string tension tends to sag inside.

I forgot to ask Mr. Fiordomo the date of manufacture of the guitar ... I would say the nineties.

Extraordinary.

Spot Advertising Bontempi of the seventies.

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[13] Toy Keyboards - Casio ML-71 - Cobol

This Casio and 'a real pocket calculator. Very small and very flat in 1980. Obviously does not cover keys semitones let alone a rhythm section. He had only one thin sound very similar to the violin Casio VL-10. I mean just one thing to reason a bit 'creative and dedicated to experimental music semitones biased toward ... who knows 'how many have existed in the eighties so the accountants'.

Among other functions than those for calculating the ML-71 also has an alarm function. Next to the ML-71 and 'the ML-81, identical from a melodic point of view "compositional" inspeigabilmente but much more' bulky.

to achieve excellent cover of Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator and when 'in the company of buddies ... to laugh and wonder.

To hear the sound of the ML-71:

http://www.cobolpongide.org/instruments.htm

[a bit ' bottom of the page where there is' too complex tablature of this song Teutonic].

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[12] Toy Keyboards - Xylomatic - Cobol

Obviously this is not a keyboard but a

metallophone programmable to handle the bright colors. Basically how it works ': there' s a cylinder connected to a crank. The cylinder and 'supported by metal rods on which are set of selectors. A sticella, a selector. The selectors may be mute. A switch is activated a hammer beating on a metal rod on a given tone 'in the majority. Determined the sequence of notes, then turned on the switches, the rotation of the cylinder 'Share a mertelletto time so' to get a melody loop.

Xylomatic is called. It 's a great toy to arrive intact but a bit' rusty directly since 1970.

I know that in Italy it 's never been sold.