[sdiy] A little more about Bob Moog

[Michael Baxter]

Tim,

This was a really nice post, thank-you. I will have to check out the site.

Bob Moog was one my childhood heros also. I was totally captivated by 
"Switched on Bach," which lead to my starting SDIY work in the 1970's.

The Moog synthesizer also motivates my interest in BJTs for synthesis, 
since Bob Moog once said that the availability of the silicon transistor 
in the early 1960's really transformed what was possible. There's still 
today so much potential down that path, in my opinion.

Cheers,
Michael

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Tim Parkhurst wrote:

> Just a quick note. This was from an email message from the Caring Bridge
> foundation, where Dr. Moog's family set up a web site.
>  **************************************
> The day after Bob Moog's private funeral last August 21, an estimated 600
> people from around the world attended a public memorial service. "I spoke to
> hundreds of people that day and they all said the CaringBridge site was so
> important for them, serving as a lifeline for news about my father," Matthew
> (Moog) relates, still amazed at the capacity of CaringBridge to connect so
> many people.
> 
> Since July 2005, more than 122,000 visits have been made to Bob Moog's
> CaringBridge site, by people in the United States, Indonesia, Japan,
> Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Germany,
> France, and other countries.
> 
> And the guestbook messages continue to be posted. Dave in Duluth, Minnesota
> wrote,
> 
> "The world thanks you for your inventions and admires your grace and
> compassion. The name Moog will live forever. In Heaven, your modular
> synthesizer will be 10 miles long and 10 miles wide. I hear the angels are
> giving up their harps..."
> 
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>  It's nice to see that so many people around the world were influenced by
> Dr. Moog's work, and that they took a minute to visit the site and leave
> some kind words.
> 
> Tim (one of many influenced by Moog) Servo
> --
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
>