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The Continental 301 Home/Club Organ - 1970 - 1972

Vox Continental 301 Organ (UK Production)
 Vox Continental 301 Organ (Italian production at EME)

Introduced in the August 1970 Vox catalog and price list, the Continental 300 (vinyl finish) and Vox Continental 301 (wood grain finish) were essentially the final generations of the Vox Continental II organ. Both were manufactured initially at the Vox facility in Erith, Kent UK before production was shifted to EME (Electtronica Musicale Europea) in Italy. Here are some of the key points about the Vox Continental 301 organ.

• It utilized the electronics of the Vox Continental 300 portable organ
• Simulated wood grain (melamine laminate) cabinet suitable for installation in a night club or at home
• Two-piece cabinet construction allows the upper console, including both keyboards, to be easily detached from the base of the organ for ease of transport
• Completely redesigned circuitry utilizing modern silicon transistors and integrated circuits
• 49 note upper manual with 16', 8', 4', II and III rank drawbar voicings
• 49 note lower manual with 8', 4', 2' and IV rank drawbar voicings
• One octave of 8' or 8'+16' walking bass tones assignable to either the bottom octave of the lower keyboard or to the thirteen note foot clavier
• Bass Sustain control simulated the decay of a string bass
• Both manuals and the walking bass section included ∿ (Foundation or Flute) and M (Reed) tone drawbars to vary the organ's overall timbral quality from mellow to bright
• Percussion effect (8', 4', or a mixture of 5 1/3' & 1 1/3') in the upper manual
• Preset Tabs (Vox, Mood, Club, Church & Jazz) in the upper manual
• Infinitely variable Reverb
• Vibrato
• Expression (volume) pedal
• 30 watt RMS solid state power amp (from the Vox Conqueror amp head)
• Two heavy duty 12" speakers
• Includes bench, thirteen note foot clavier, headphone jack and an extension socket for the optional Gyrotone II or III rotary speaker systems

The Continental 301 Home/Club organ should not be confused with the Vox V301J (single manual Vox Continental made by JMI in the UK), the V301E (single manual Continental made for Vox by EME in Italy) or the V301H (single manual Vox Continental made by Thomas Organ for distribution in the US).

The August 16, 1970 Vox price list offered the VOX Continental 301 for a retail price of £517 which would convert to about $1250 USD in 1970. Adjusting these 1970 prices for 50+ years of inflation, the Continental 301 would retail today for £7100 or $10,669 USD.



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