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Plugged into a Vox AC10. Photo: Nemo Mannermaa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Farfisa

Farfisa FAST 2

Discontinued 1971
Released 1968

The entry FAST: four octaves with a fixed monophonic bass octave, four 8' voices and a built-in 10 W amplifier with two 6x9 speakers, all in orange and blue-grey with orange ball feet. Single-footage and cheaply made (the bottom five treble notes are monophonic too), but it sounds better than the spec suggests.

Replaced by FAST 3

Specifications

General

Manufacturer
Farfisa
Status
Discontinued
Released
1968

Keyboard

Manuals
1
Keys per manual
49
Key action
Waterfall
Keybed
Four octaves (C to C): a one-octave monophonic manual bass (low-note priority) plus three treble octaves; unweighted organ keys

Sound

Drawbars
Tab switches
Sound engine
All-silicon-transistor top-octave divider organ
Organ models
Voice tabs: Flute, Clarinet, Reed, Strings (all 8'); always-on bass with its own volume
Polyphony
Full polyphony (bass octave and lowest five treble notes monophonic)

Connections

Outputs
Built-in 10 W amplifier and two 6x9-inch speakers
Pedal inputs
Expression

Features

Features
Built-in amplifier and speakers, Vibrato (slow/fast), Monophonic bass octave, Passive 1/4-inch volume pedal

Size & weight

Colours
Orange, Blue-grey

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