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EYE
March 68ELEVATOR People on the way up - ROBERT A. MOOG By Merle Goldberg
Tucked away on a 52-acre farm in Trumansburg, N.Y., amid trees and big barns, is the man who is revolutionizing electronic music. And it is just this contrast that R. (for Robert) A. Moog (rhymes with vogue), the 33-year-old inventor of the Moog synthesizer, enjoys.
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Electronics
March 4, 1968Consumer electronics - Moog music
It's doubtful whether the Beatles will be replaced by the Moog, an electronic music synthesizer, but before long they may be using one. In fact, such pop music groups as the Monkees and the Supremes are joining several university music laboratories and some composers of electronic music in jumping on the Moog bandwagon.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
NOVEMBER 3, 1968Switching On to Mock Bach - by DONAL HENAHAN
If a friend offered, or threatened, to play for you a record called Switched-On Bach, kindly warning that it included the Third Brandenburg Concerto as rendered by an e1ectronic synthesizer, you might suddenly remember a previous appointment, might you not? If so, you would miss an astonishing experience, and possibly one of the year's most significant records (Columbia MS-7194, stereo).
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HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE
December 1968THE ELECTRONIC BACH: JOHAN SEBASTIAN IN A WILD, WILD BREAKTHROUGH - By Gene Lees
THE AGE OF THE synthesizer can be dated, by one definition, from the 1930s, when the big double-banked trautonium was developed in Germany. By another definition, you have to date it from the early 1950s, when RCA coined the term for the instrument it unveiled at that time.
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Syracuse Herald-American
December 8, 1968Electronic Synthesizer Produces Unlimited Sounds
The latest breakthrough in music is the synthesizer, an electronic instrument, invented by R.A. Moog in Trumansburg, a little town about ten miles north of Ithaca. The synthesizer is capable of producing any sound with astonishing fidelity and ease. The synthesizer has a keyboard that looks a like one chopped off a piano, but at that point any similarity to a traditional musical instrument ends.
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The New York Times
Wednesday December 11, 1968
Mark II Is Dead, Long Live the Moog! - by DONAL HENAHAN
Mark II, king of electronic music synthesizers, sits in a room on West 125th Street, blinking red eyes sadly and making strange, whirring, clicking sounds. The king is doomed to die.
Having served its purpose as a pioneer device in electronic music, the mighty Mark II is being pushed aside by a new generation of lean, compact .
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