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Vox Continental history

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Vox Continental history

- [Instructor] The Vox Continental was originally created by the Jennings Musical Instrument Company, or JMI, who's founder was a man named Tom Jennings. JMI had been in the organ business since the 1950s. They started by making accordions, and then expanded to make organs. Their first more portable organs were instruments called the Univox, which were designed to be attached using metal clips beneath the right hand side of a piano keyboard. Later, JMI released an adjustable chrome-plated stand to streamline the setup process. These Univox models had buttons for sound shaping purposes. They also included a tube-based tone generator and a built in amplifier and speaker. JMI began mass production of the first Vox Continental organ in 1962. It was later produced as a joint venture with an Italian manufacturer. There are a number of models, all based on the Continental, that were released with various feature differences. There was the Continental itself, which had single manual. The…

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