I’m just going through a bunch of old Moog Music docs.
Found lots of interesting tidbits.
For example, Moog’s cost on a Minimoog keyboard action was over $300.
Definitely the most expensive part of a synth then.
(Current Fatar actions are roughly $50.)
In the last days of the company, they were blowing products out very cheaply too.
This should hurt:
http://www.minimoog.net/blowout1.jpg
http://www.minimoog.net/blowout2.jpg
May 23rd: Happy Birthday to Bob Moog (and my own mother.)
$200 for a Source and $800 for a Minimoog??
I think I am going to be sick…
don’t forget inflation though!
Six months later that year, they were blowing out Memorymoogs for $1000. I bought mine from that sale when I visited the factory. All that was left were Polymoogs and Taurus II controllers (pedal set only, no synth module).
I think it’s interesting to note that the Mini was released at $1495 (I think), went to $1795, 1995 and here the last price noted was $2750.
I didn’t know Minis ever listed for that much.
Must have been really bad years for them then.
On one hand they had the Minimoog, which was very labor inten$ive to build.
On the other, Roland, Korg and Yamaha cranking out mass produced products.
Not hard to see why they went of business.
The DX7 came and killed them all!
Was Moog considered a boutique synth manufacturer at that time and did that concept even exist?
It’s interesting to see how many boutigue synth makers exist today building analog and/or digital. It may have seemed like the 70’s/early 80’s were the time for synths but today it is almost insane what we have available to us.
In many ways it feels like this is the most exciting time for synth geeks considering what is available. Moog Music, Dave Smith, Ken Macbeth, Ken Stone (CGS), Eric Barbour (tubes!! 
), Doepfer, .com, MOTM, PAiA, Modcan, Buchla (still here but i’d have to commit bank robbery for one module), ect. and the DIY community. Even Alesis made a bold move with the Andromeda!
Of course Roland has the new Juno’s 
True, but they also have the V-Synth, which is utterly brilliant.
Indeed! And the expansion cards (especially the VC-1, which turns the V-Synth into a D-50) was a stroke of genius. It’s like having multiple synths in the same package.