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U.S.News & World Report
March 13, 1997
Back to music's future
By Brendan Koene
As an engineering graduate student in 1964, Robert A. Moog created the world's first synthesizer out of home-made circuit boards. By the time he built his first portable keyboard- the legendary MiniMoog- seven years later, avant-garde musicians were mad for the instruments.
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EQ
April 1997
Robert Moog Find out what's the next wave for this synthesizer pioneer
BY MR. BONZAI
MR. BONZAI: Which came first, the music or the musician?
MOOG: My mother gave me piano lessons when I was a kid. By the time I was eight I could play the likes of Beethoven, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. Buti never liked it. I was always much happier hanging out with my father in his hobby shop. So I guess I was a musician well before I understood or enjoyed music.
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The Charlotte Observer
November 16, 1997
Moog Music The '60s synthesizer is back and its inventor is creating new sounds in his N.C. lab
By KENNETH JOHNSON Pop Music Writer
As an engineering graduate student in 1964, Robert A. Moog created the world's first synthesizer out of home-made circuit boards. By the time he built his first portable keyboard- the legendary MiniMoog- seven years later, avant-garde musicians were mad for the instruments.
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