[sdiy] Moog or moog

[Peter Grenader]

Along the same lines, Don Boooochla is actually pronounced Buuuukla (for
reals). I still haven't figured out the proper way to address Dieter  - I've
heard Doe-fer, Dope-fer, and Doept-fer.  Thankfully. he's an understanding
guy!

- Peter Grenader (pronounced 'smeyeth')




J.D. McEachin wrote:

> 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."
>