Talk:Robert Moog

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[edit] Theremin

Information to the theremin from the book: Albert Glinsky: Theremin Ether Music and Espionage, University of Illinois Press, 2000. Robert Moog wrote the foreword, including his experiences with the theremin. --- please, could somebody proof read the theremin part (style), because I'm not a native English speaker. Best regards, Bernd —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.111.232.146 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Pronounced

I think just the pronounciation in the IPA is enough,without the admonishment not to mispronounce!

[edit] "Daft"

"...although it sometimes took hours to set up the machine for a new sound"

This sounds a bit daft to me. Would it really take "hours" to set one of those initial Moog modular cabinets up? How many knobs and patch sockets were there on it, 40? The statement implies that limitations machine itself caused the inordinate time - I'd wager any delays were more due to musicians' inexperience with it, and not knowing what they were doing? Any thoughts?--feline1 05:47, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements

This article could be improved with some additional personal information on Robert Moog , if available. --Blainster 16:59, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

I hope to expand this article considerably after the release of the Moog documentary. -- Krash 17:30, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
BTW, the documentary's crap for providing any information. -- Krash 20:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] R.I.P

21 August 2005 R.I.P —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.235.110.19 (talk • contribs) .

Why the redirect to Bob Moog??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.146.173.148 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Bob or Robert

The article uses both Bob and Robert, and looking at obituaries, interview etc it appears that both were used. I would say that under these circumstances the article title should be the more formal name, not the less formal one. — ciphergoth 07:01, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

One comment in support above and no comments against, so I made the move. — ciphergoth 21:47, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wendy Carlos

Other documentaries emphasise the role Wendy Carlos played in bringing the Moog synth to popular attention - is that accurate? If so we should do so here. — ciphergoth 07:03, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moog: proposed unit of measure

Although it would be nice to honour Mr. Moog with his own measurement unit... is there any substance to that, or ist it a 'Wikipedia exclusive'? If not, maybe a link to that prposal might be appropriate. Asav

Yeah, this sounds like nonsense. I found nothing on google or the ANSI site. Section deleted. --fataltourist 23:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article split

I really want to split off the bits about the Moog synthesizer into their own article. The Robert Moog article would then be purely biographical, and the synthesizer article would just talk about the synthesizer. Any opinions on that? (Motivating reason being that on one of my music pages I mention using a Moog synthesizer and I wanted to be able to put in a link -- but linking to Robert Moog doesn't seem quite right. I could take the Robert Moog article, repost just the synthesizer-related content on my wiki and use that for the link, but that doesn't feel optimal either.) --Woozle 16:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Take it and run. There's definitely not enough biographical information and too much filler in this article. Also, there's really no definitive "Moog synthesizer". The term can describe a number of Moog instruments, all of which have their own name/model number. Moog synthesizer could be a disambiguation of these instruments/modules. -- Krash 14:13, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I went ahead and made Moog synthesizer a disambig page. I will try to help clean up this article. Maybe all the synth and business info could go under Moog Music, since that is the current company name. That article needs some major clean up too. I'll try to get crackin. fataltourist 14:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

The article currently is a rambling mess of useless trivia and randomly dropped-names that serves not very well as a biograpy. Some of the text could be merged into Moog Music and Moog synthesizer. Some just needs to be deleted. The link repository is one of the most extensive and unencyclopedic I've seen in a while. -- Krash

[edit] Development of the Moog synthesizer

I propose trimming down this section and completely removing the "Moog synth in culture" as I have made an article out of Moog synthesizer and moved a great deal of the content over there. Please visit, comment and edit. This section in question would hopefully focus on more Moog's involvment in the development of the synth and I have a pretty good idea of the edits that I would make. I just don't want to upset anyone by removing anything from this article (even though it's been moved elsewhere) without discussing it first. -- Krash (Talk) 21:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Last lecture

This section is one sentence. If this is even noteworthy it can go somewhere... but I don't know where. Move? Delete? --fataltourist 23:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

How's it look now? -- Krash (Talk) 23:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronounciation

The Dutch do not pronounciate 'Moog' as "moch" but rather ryme it with "vogue" with a silent "g" at the end. Or does "moch" has a long "o" sound in it like in "open"? I wonder where he got the 'original' Dutch pronounciation from, since it is an uncommon name in Holland. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stasis101 (talk • contribs) 13:11, May 26, 2006 (UTC)