Brian Kehew of the Moog Cookbook wrote in to let me know Mountain XPress has a must read article up on Bob Moog, the Bob Moog Foundation and the upcoming Moogseum. You can find the full article here. The following are a few excerpts. Be sure to note the upcoming fundraiser, "Enter the Mind of Moog" coming up on May 21.
"Michelle Moog-Koussa, daughter of the late Bob Moog (rhymes with 'vogue'), walks over from a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves filled end-to-end with boxes that are heavy with old papers and file folders, and lays down a blue notebook.'We just ran across something the other day,' she says, leaning over and delicately unfolding leaves of slightly translucent paper covered in multicolored lines and strange squiggly symbols. It is the original hand-drawn schematic for the Minimoog synthesizer, one of her father’s most iconic developments. 'If you give this to the right person, it is enough to make them plotz,' she says.
'Plotz' is a Yiddishism that indicates extreme excitement. Its literal translation is 'to explode,..'" Indeed. Be sure to see the full article for more.
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