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 Exterior of Moog Music building in Asheville, North Carolina | |
| Formerly | R. A. Moog Co. (1953-1972) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Founded | 1953 Trumansburg, New York, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |
Key people | Robert Moog, founder Mike Adams, president |
| Products | Synthesizers, Musical instruments, Signal processing |
| Parent | inMusic |
| Website | www.moogmusic.com |
Moog Music Inc. (/moʊɡ/ mohg[1]) is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog synthesizer (the first commercial synthesizer), followed by the Minimoog in 1970, both of which were highly influential electronic instruments.
In 1973,[2] following a recession, Robert Moog sold Moog Music to Norlin Musical Instruments, where he remained employed as a designer until 1977. In 1978, he founded a new company, Big Briar. Moog Music filed for bankruptcy in 1987 and the Moog Music trademark was returned to Robert Moog in 2002, when Big Briar resumed operations under the name Moog Music. In June 2023, Moog Music was acquired by inMusic.
Moog Music also manages Moogfest, a pioneering electronic music and music technology festival in Durham, North Carolina.
- ^ "Is it pronounced Mooooooog or Mogue?". Moog Zendesk. Archived from the original on May 23, 2022.
- ^ Luxenberg, Stan (April 23, 1978). "Norlin Seeks to Scale Up Profits". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 3, 2024.