OT Re: [sdiy] Bob Moog

[Bob Weigel]

Yeah good sos article. 

RE: the minimoog.  Like any complex design built by a group of people, 
one guy usually oversees things and has final say on what goes out the 
door.  Has to discern who to hire to do the various jobs.  etc.  While I 
think we all agree that the filter design was Bob's, I don't know how 
much Bill and others contributed to the other aspects of the design 
ranging from the layout of conrols and architecture of the instrument, 
to the decision to allow the pw to chatter if they were even aware of it 
:-). 

But Bob was in charge of the company and the instrument came out with 
his name on it.  I'm guessing since he initially opposed it that a lot 
of interaction took place and he finally said 'ok..let's do this thing 
right'... -Bob

John Mahoney wrote:

> At 04:13 PM 8/24/2009, Dave Manley wrote:
>
>> Interesting reading:
>>
>> http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar02/articles/retrozone0302.asp
>>
>> -Dave
>
>
> Very interesting, indeed. Nice to revisit that. (I subscribe to SOS.)
>
> Bob didn't exactly design the Minimoog, either, and famously resisted 
> it's production. Perhaps he gets too much credit for it, too.
>
> Regardless, what he *did* do was quite significant. (I just want to 
> make sure that nobody gets the wrong impression of my opinion.)
>
> John
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