Moog Rhymes with Rogue

Wired 11.07 has a brief interview with Robert Moog. It doesn’t say a whole lot, but it’s nice.

They also lay to rest the pronunciation question:

If the synthesizer business has a household name, it’s Robert Moog – even if most people don’t know how to pronounce it. In the mid-’60s, Moog (rhymes with rogue ) built the first keyboard controlled synthesizers…

That interview led me to a nice page about the new MiniMoog Voyager which looks like it could be a lot of fun. My birthday is coming up!

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