Moog Minitaur

Andrew Tarpinian EMAIL HIDDEN
Mon Jan 9 20:39:28 CET 2012


On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For a lot of people, their first synthesizer or experience of a
> synthesizer was a Moog.  That has translated into brand loyalty, and
> the idea that when you buy a Moog, you buy the best. For a lot of
> people, there is the impression that Moog was the first, and
> everything else is a copy of that original (not completely untrue, but
> not exactly accurate).
> 
> For whatever reason, the Moog name has become a part of peoples
> emotional and sentimental landscape.  Moog Inc. does well by
> capitalizing on that sentiment.

It's funny as I think Bob Moog experienced the other side of this when he first started selling his therimins. I got this impression from the doc on Leon Theremin (very good doc, it's on Netflix)


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