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The University of Michigan Record
January 9, 1989
Its legacy: A musical revolution. Stearns Collection home to first commercial Moog
By Rhett Stuart News and information Services
The first commercially produced Moog synthesizer has been acquired by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, housed at the School of Music.
"The Model One Moog is truly a unique instrument," says William P. Malm, director of the Stearns Collection. "It is to the music world what the Wright brothers' airplane is to aviation."
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Music and Sound Retailer
February-March 1989
The Once And Future Keyboard: The Inventor Of The Minimoog Looks At The State of The Synth Market
By Bob Moog
The musical instrument business has always been driven by technological innovation. If you doubt me, just remember that the African Diembe drum is a marvel of pre-industrial technology, Stradivarius' instruments are sophisticated examples of 17th century wood working technology, and the acoustic piano, developed nearly two centuries ago, remains the most complex mechanism that we encounter in our daily lives.
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The Atlanta Journal And Constitution
March 19, 1989
Synthesizer Pioneer Robert Moog Still Keeps a Hand in Music Biz
By Tom Campbell Special to the Journal-Constitutions
The next time you play with portable music keyboards in a department store or hear an electronically created movie or TV sound-track, think of the man who made it all possible: Dr. Robert A. Moog, a 54-year-old Flushing, N.Y., native now living in Leicester, N.C., near Asheville. In the late 1960s, he in- troduced the Moog (rhymes with "vogue") synthesizer, the prototype of the portable keyboard. Musicians such as Walter Carlos (creator of the album "Switched-on Bach") and Keith Emerson (of the rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer) made Moog a household word.
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