[sdiy] Moog or moog

[J.D. McEachin]

At 05:24 PM 8/25/2005 -0400, Joseph Palermo wrote:
>Which is the correct way to say it, I've never been to sure. Is it like 
>go or goo

>From the man himself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4180664.stm

How are you spelling that?

<picture> Dr Moog, in vogue, performing in 1980

In death, as in life, when people spoke about Robert Moog, his name sounded like the noise a cow makes.

For a man who did so much to broaden the range of sounds available to the human ear - from prog rock to electronica - it might have been something of an irony that people couldn't get his name right.

For Moog should not have rhymed with "fugue". It's pronounced "Mogue".

Moog was once asked by an interviewer for the definitive word on his name. He was quite clear: "It rhymes with vogue. That is the usual German pronunciation. My father's grandfather came from Marburg, Germany. I like the way that pronunciation sounds better than the way the cow's 'moo-g' sounds."