wrt 1st moog > Anyways, After the original sat in the Uni he was at, collecting dust. He > said that students were intimidated by the machine, so it just sat > there.Deutsche wanted to donate the moog to a museum. He shopped it around > to museums all over the country and the Ford museum was the only one really > interested, and knew the inventions worth.By this time, the moog had taken > off and bands such as the Rolling Stones and Beatles ordered their own. The > Ford Museum was so thrilled they asked Deutsche to do one more performance > on the original before it went to museum land. You can see the original Moog > at the Ford Museum.
back in '85, Bob Moog was on a lecture tour to promote the Kurzweil 250 (sampling keyboard). i attended a talk he presented at Wayne State U. at one point he showed a slide of the first Moog and then paused and remarked that this had just recently been sold to the Henry Ford Museum, to which the audience responded with a spontaenous round of applause. coincidentally enough, Henry Ford himself bought the first Hammond organ back in 1935. --eric (shouldn't this be on tech-gear? ;-)
