http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/04/30/walter-sear-synth-pioneer-dead-at-age-79/
Walter Sear passed away April 29, 2010. When Bob Moog was getting started in the 1960s, Walter became his first sales representative who sold theremins in the New York City area before becoming the prominent east coast distributor of Moog modular systems.