Moog piano bar on Craigslist

Just Me · Post by **Just Me** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:23 pm

Was going through the list and found this tonight. Never seen one before. Would be neat if it was shorter and could put it on my Hammond!

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/msg/1505466158.html

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:56 am

They had just discontinued this oddity when I bought my LP. It was manufactured by Buchla, but sold by Moog. It cost somewhere around $2000, as I recall. The voice cards are still listed on some websites.

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:53 am

Voltor07 wrote: It was manufactured by Buchla, but sold by Moog.

wow really? I always thought that was kind of a strange product for moog. Now if it sent pitch/gate out to control an analog synth that I could see moog making. It was a cool idea, just didn't strike me as moog-ish

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:30 pm

ColorForm2113 wrote:It was a cool idea, just didn't strike me as moog-ish

I think that's why it was discontinued...even I couldn't justify spending $2000 for something like that...and I was willing to get a beat up piano without strings just so I could use the thing...but it was too limited.

nicholas d. kent · Post by **nicholas d. kent** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:59 am

The price was $1495.

Buchla uses the same memory card format for his 200e and LIGHTNING. So it is a bit amusing to plug one in with a Moog logo on it, though Buchla's cards lack the shell the Moog branded ones have.

I guess there was a bit of a catch 22. Buchla certainly had few dealer connections. Moog Music has mainstream dealer connections but with few retailers dealing in pianos where I would think this would really need to be placed and promoted. Moog music too was somewhere that he could go to and not be cheated . Many innovative ideas just get copied when they get shown to the big companies and money to work around most patents.