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Description: | Vox Continental Mark II electronic organ, designed and built by the Jennings Organ Company. The accidental keys are white and the non-accidentals black, rather like those of a harpsichord. The electric circuitry is housed within the characteristic, raised orange platform behind the keyboards. Twelve oscillators - one for each note of the scale - produce the sound, with frequency dividers to produce lower octaves. These sounds are boosted by transistors and their tone altered by combining sine, saw-tooth and square waves. The result is a powerful and sustained polyphonic sound that could compete in an ensemble of amplified instruments. The Vox Continental featured in bands such as The Animals, The Doors and later, the Camden-based band, Madness. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | circa 1965 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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