[sdiy] A little more about Bob Moog

[Oren Leavitt]

The Caring Bridge site did a great job for Bob!
I have spent a good long time reading through Bob's guestbook back in 
August. Really moving.
Oren

Michael Baxter wrote:
> 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:
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>>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.
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>>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
>>
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