Herb Deutsch and the Minimoog

Herb Deutsch and the Minimoog

Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Herb Deutsch and the Minimoog”.
So hi i’m herb deutsch and i’m here bringing a couple of very early electronic instruments, because i was very much involved with those early instruments back in 1964, i worked with bob moog and between the two of us we designed the first moog synthesizer. So what i’ve got here with me is the most famous of the early moog synthesizers, an instrument called the mini moog and then over here i have uh an instrument which was actually bob moog’s favorite instrument, an instrument called the pheromone and the theremin was really what Got bob moog into the idea of making electronic instruments because he had not made an actual synthesizer until we got together and decided. This would be a really great thing to have something that people could afford to own and have in their studios. So that’s what i’m here with today, uh just to talk a bit more about the development of the first moog and how we got together. I can’t get into great detail on that now, but i will, as we get moving uh, but the idea of the synthesizer uh, the it the most famous of them all, was the one that he made in about uh started selling in about 1970., and we had Designed the first one in 1964., you .