The company was renamed Jennings Musical Industries, or JMI. In 1956, Jennings was shown a prototype guitar amplifier made by Dick Denney, a big band guitarist and workmate from World War II. Jennings's first successful product was the Univox, an early self-powered electronic keyboard similar to the Clavioline. The Jennings Organ Company was founded by Thomas Walter Jennings in Dartford Kent, England after World War II. Since 1992, Vox has been owned by the Japanese electronics firm Korg. The company is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, used by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Queen, Dire Straits, U2, and Radiohead the Vox Continental electric organ, the Vox wah-wah pedal used by Jimi Hendrix, and a series of innovative electric guitars and bass guitars. Vox is a British musical equipment manufacturer founded in 1957 by Thomas Walter Jennings in Dartford, Kent, England.
