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Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Moog Music is an American company based in Asheville, North Carolina which manufactures electronic musical instruments.

The current Moog Music is the second company to trade under that name.

Moog synthesizer (pronounced; often anglicized to, though Robert Moog preferred the former) may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers.

The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems in the mid 1960s.

The technological development that led to the creation of the Moog synthesizer was the invention of the transistor, which enabled researchers like Moog to build electronic music systems that were considerably smaller, cheaper and far more reliable than earlier vacuum tube-based systems.

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production, an electronic musician being a musician who composes and/or performs such music.

In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.

Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar.

Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.

An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.