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ROBERT MOOG, MOOG SYNTHESIZER INVENTOR, DEAD AT 71

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05-08-26
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ROBERT MOOG, MOOG SYNTHESIZER INVENTOR, DEAD AT 71 The inventor of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog, has died at his Asheville, N.C., it was reported Monday. He was 71. Moog died Sunday, five months after he was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, his Web site said. A New York native, Moog became interested in electronic instruments as a teen, MTV.com reported Monday. He earned college degrees in physics, electrical engineering and engineering physics and by 1963 had developed his first Moog synthesizer. The instrument appeared on the 1967 Monkees album, "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.," but it was two years later when Walter Carlos used it for his Grammy-winning "Switched on Bach" that the synthesizer really took hold, MTV said. Rockers quickly glommed onto the Moog synthesizer. MTV said it is credited for the thick bass sounds of '70s icons Genesis, Rush and the Police. Many disco songs were created by Moog synthesizers as well. Moog is survived by his wife, Ileana, five children and their mother, Shierleigh Moog

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