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Robert Moog with a variety of his own synthesizers Herbert Deutsch, collaborator and friend of Robert Moog. Robert Moog founded R. A. Moog Co. with his father in 1953 at the age of 19, building and selling theremin kits and theremins by mail order first from his parents' home in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City and, after he married, in his own home in Ithaca, before ...
The Realistic Concertmate MG-1 is an analog synthesizer co-developed by Tandy and Moog Music as a basic, low-priced synthesizer to be sold by Radio Shack under their "Realistic" brand. With estimated unit sales of 23,000 from 1982 to 1983, the MG-1 became the best-selling synthesizer ever manufactured by Moog Music, [ 2 ] and is one of the most ...
Moog Music: Moog synthesizer: First commercial synthesizer [2] 1970 Moog Music: Minimoog: First synthesizer sold in retail stores [3] [4] 1970 Buchla: Buchla Series 200 [1] 1978 Sequential Circuits: Prophet-5: First fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer [5] 2008 Dave Smith Instruments: Prophet '08 [6] 2017 Dave Smith Instruments: Prophet ...
The Multimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 1978 to 1981. Derived from the earlier Micromoog (internally, it consists of a stock Micromoog circuit board with the extra circuitry on a second board), the Multimoog was intended to be a less expensive alternative to the Minimoog.
The Beatles – one of the first mainstream albums to use a Moog was Abbey Road; Paul Beaver; Bee Gees – "Sweet Song of Summer", To Whom It May Concern (1972); one of the earliest implementations of a Moog in a popular music record (LP) Nuno Bettencourt – Extreme, Population1; Marek Biliński – Polish electronic music
Robert Arthur Moog (/ m oʊ ɡ / MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964.
The Polymoog is a hybrid polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on divide-down oscillator technology similar to electronic organs and string synthesizers of the time.
The Slim Phatty is a monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 2011–2014. It is considered to be an entry-level synthesizer in the Moog family. Its design is based on the Little Phatty, which in turn is a more modernized version of the Minimoog Voyager.