Vox Continental II
Discontinued 1972Released 1966
The British two-manual Continental: the lower manual is a standard Continental up an octave with a 13-note bass section, the upper adds 16' and two mixtures including the 5 1/3' quint. Sturdier all-plastic keys than the Italian Super Continental, and a later grey-topped 'Super II' added percussion. The Beatles had one on the 1966 tour before it was in the shops.
Replaced by Continental 300
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Vox
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1966
Keyboard
- Manuals
- 2
- Keys per manual
- 49
- Key action
- Waterfall
- Keybed
- Two 49-note reverse-colour manuals; lower manual's bottom 13 notes (C to C) form the bass section; all-plastic keys (Kimber-Allen), unweighted
Sound
- Drawbars
- Physical
- Sound engine
- Transistor top-octave divider organ (silicon transistors on the later STC models)
- Organ models
- Upper: 16', 8', 4', II (5 1/3', 1 3/5'), III (2 2/3', 2', 1'), Flute and Reed drawbars; lower: 8', 4', 2', IV, Flute and Reed; bass: Flute and Reed drawbars with 8' or 8'+16' switch and bass sustain
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony
Connections
- Pedal inputs
- Expression, Pedalboard
Features
- Features
- Two manuals, 13-note bass section, Bass sustain, Vibrato, Percussion on the later Super II (STC-2), Bass pedalboard socket (usually blanked off)
Size & weight
- Colours
- Red, Grey, Black
Heard on
Artists and records that used it, as Vox tells it.
- John Lennon (The Beatles) – A pre-production Continental II on the 1966 tour, photographed in Essen and Tokyo