Nearly 4500 pieces of pure synth history just got dumped into public hands, and somehow there's a working sample workstation mixed into a modular synth guy's personal stash. inMusic handed the whole haul over to the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, pulling from Bob's own office during his last stretch at Moog Music.
We're talking over 500 wiring diagrams and 700 pieces of correspondence in this drop, on top of stacks of old trade magazines and catalogs from rival gear makers going back decades. Letters between Bob and names like Wendy Carlos, Herb Deutsch, Felix Visser, and Lydia Kavina are sitting in there waiting to get properly dug through. Handwritten notebooks full of his engineering scribbles made the cut too, along with rough drafts of forewords and articles penned by the man himself.
Hardware nerds get a Fairlight CMI in the mix, which is wild because that's an Australian sampling rig, a totally different lane from Moog's analog wheelhouse. A Synton System 3000 and an actual bench prototype of the Minimoog Voyager showed up as well. Moogerfooger test units, a MuRF fixture, and a PC-30 Phone Controller round things out, plus sixteen cabinets stuffed with old capacitors and chips used for building and fixing the gear.
Took the Foundation over a year just sorting and cataloging everything before going public with it. inMusic's president called the Foundation a vital keeper of Moog's history, while the Foundation's director said this haul cements their spot as a top-tier archive for the whole genre. inMusic already gave up Bob's 2002 Grammy and the actual lathe he and his dad used for cabinet work, so this isn't their first rodeo donating stuff back.
We're talking over 500 wiring diagrams and 700 pieces of correspondence in this drop, on top of stacks of old trade magazines and catalogs from rival gear makers going back decades. Letters between Bob and names like Wendy Carlos, Herb Deutsch, Felix Visser, and Lydia Kavina are sitting in there waiting to get properly dug through. Handwritten notebooks full of his engineering scribbles made the cut too, along with rough drafts of forewords and articles penned by the man himself.
Hardware nerds get a Fairlight CMI in the mix, which is wild because that's an Australian sampling rig, a totally different lane from Moog's analog wheelhouse. A Synton System 3000 and an actual bench prototype of the Minimoog Voyager showed up as well. Moogerfooger test units, a MuRF fixture, and a PC-30 Phone Controller round things out, plus sixteen cabinets stuffed with old capacitors and chips used for building and fixing the gear.
Took the Foundation over a year just sorting and cataloging everything before going public with it. inMusic's president called the Foundation a vital keeper of Moog's history, while the Foundation's director said this haul cements their spot as a top-tier archive for the whole genre. inMusic already gave up Bob's 2002 Grammy and the actual lathe he and his dad used for cabinet work, so this isn't their first rodeo donating stuff back.
