Vox organ commercial (Jaguar/Continental)

[@warrendoris9669]

This is totally cool! The vox continental ,was what all the bands we followed,were playing,or hoping to play. Vox amps were the thing too. Great vid,super voice over guy. 😂

[@paulj0557tonehead]

The Contour knob gives it the Vox clarity to full on sizzle! It never has to sound muddy. I had a VOX/Heathkit Jaguar in the late 90's- early 2000's. Like the Continental, the Jaguar has the great sounding 12 tone generator boards, transistor divider system identical to the system in most transistor based home organs of the day. Wurlitzer, Lowrey, Hammond's non- tone wheel models, Thomas, Kimball, Baldwin, etc.... as well as the Farfisa and Gibson ( essentially a Lowrey). Even the great Hammond X66 uses transistor divider tone generation, except the X66 uses 12 tone wheels which represent the the 12 note scale of the highest octave ( as even the transistor divider models do as well), but instead of a Hartley Oscillator generating the highest fundamental tone, the X66 generates the tone with the spinning electromagnetic tone wheel. Then Hammond takes that tone and super distorts it into clipping using a couple transistors, generating a square wave representing the tone. From there the square wave is filtered further into other wave types, including back into a sine wave. Just as the other aforementioned divider organs do, coming out of the initial highest octave ( called 'top octave') they use a two-transistor flipflop circuit to divide the tone ( frequency) exactly in half, thus creating the next lower octaves pitch of that note, and then that is flipflopped for the next lower octave, and so on all the way to the lowest octave. This is done on all 12 notes of that highest octave, through all 3 1/2 ( spinet or combo organ), or 5 ( full console) octaves on the organ, as well as the even lower octaves of the bass pedals. Aside from the raft of flipflop transistors, the initial tone of the organ is done with just a dozen transistors ( or tone wheels, or also check out the great Wurlitzer 4600 _Electrostatic Reed_ tone generation, also at the following site along with the Hammond X66, see Wurlitzer 4600 , ggl *North Suburban Hammond Organ Society* and look at the Tech Articles drop down menu for the Hammond X66 and you see how the flipflop works, and the Wurlitzer 4600 even has an animated diagram. Check out the 4600's unique electronic Vibrato system). See a Hammond tone wheel in action using a finger crank demo, go to the 40 minute mark in the video, *Legendary Theater Organists.* , and then get a load of the very first tone wheels by their inventor Thaddeus Cahill, in the vid-- *The 1st Synth Was Bigger Than a House - The Telharmonium*

[@genem9725]

I'm an old organ player. I still crave The Continental

[@ffas23]

Kool video that came up in my You Tube feed this morning that I had to watch. I still own 2 Vox Continental’s in great shape all intact. A Single Keyboard and a Dual Keyboard Super Continental. Some of the Koolest instruments I ever own. Purchased my very first Vox Continental brand new in 1968. I had a brand new Farfisa Combo Compact organ that I purchased brand new during the Summer of 1965 before it another great organ. I was looking for a Vox Continental then in ‘65 but couldn’t find a Music Shop anywhere near me that carried Vox. I was only 14 years old at the time so I was limited to where I could shop for one back then needing someone to drive me where I could find one.

[@nate7393]

I love who was playing the organ for the demonstration. Has a cool style, some parts remind me of early Pigpen playing like on the Deads first album era

[@holaholay]

I love you for this, thank you

[@melstarr976]

If I had to choose which vintage vox organ to buy for keeps then the single keyboard vox continental organ would be my choice. It's my favourite vox organ.

[@genem9725]

Me too.

[@jackp8583]

Wow, I've never heard a commercial from a musical equipment manufacturer. Nice digging up of the obscure!

[@danjwalker]

There's also a promotional record for the first fuzz pedal ever made. It's great because they didn't really know how to market it at the time. "Make your guitar sound like a trumpet!" It's pretty funny.

[@TheMazo02]

Arp odyssey also has... simmons drums, or optigan.. there are many!

[@cub19]

The great Johnny Holliday (WHK, KYA) doing the voiceover!

[@frankielamberts93]

Sick

[@turntheradioon9448]

Neat......

[@henrywhenryw812]

I wonder who played ?