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From: spaceanimals

> So why can't all synthesizers have this? [etc]

Exactly. Excellent point. This is precisely what Bob Moog found out. People 
wanted something select and beautiful, not something high-tech and `modern.' 
Hence the fine wood panelling on the smaller Moogs and the wood cabinets 
with the modulars.

Artwork is a stage further, of course, but I can imagine it might appeal for 
exactly the same reasons the non-techy cabinets worked on the early Moogs.