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What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

~Robert Moog

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The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.

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I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

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The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

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Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

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By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

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Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

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There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: May 23rd, 1934

Died: August 21st, 2005

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