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Useless fact: I used to sell one for a brief period in the 80’s .... I seem to remember it was £399 and only 3 or 4 octaves ?

Maybe the ARP Odyssey?

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Maybe the ARP Odyssey?

Nope, more like (looks wise) the one in the 2nd panel down on the right:

(2.5 octaves then )

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Nope, more like (looks wise) the one in the 2nd panel down on the right:

(2.5 octaves then )

Ahh, that's the Moog Rogue, a little affordable 1-oscillator mono-synth. I have a good friend who used to work for Tandy in the late 70s - early 80s, and he re-engineered the Rogue to become the Realistic MG-1 sold in Radio Shack stores for $499. This was after after Bob Moog lost the company to Norlin Music, a bit of a dark-age for the brand. ARP of course was one of their main competitors in the 70s, and also went through receivership and sold the brand in the 80s.

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Ahh, that's the Moog Rogue, a little affordable 1-oscillator mono-synth. I have a good friend who used to work for Tandy in the late 70s - early 80s, and he re-engineered the Rogue to become the Realistic MG-1 sold in Radio Shack stores for $499. This was after after Bob Moog lost the company to Norlin Music, a bit of a dark-age for the brand. ARP of course was one of their main competitors in the 70s, and also went through receivership and sold the brand in the 80s.

Makes sense , it was Tandy I worked for in that short period (some part of the 80’s) , when that keyboard came along..... it appeared quite a random product at the time (but this was the U.K. and it was definitely a Moog not rebadged as Realistic ), but it was when we were trying various branded (non tandy) stuff out.
it was definitely the style at least , mini and sloped back

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Makes sense , it was Tandy I worked for in that short period (some part of the 80’s) , when that keyboard came along..... it appeared quite a random product at the time (but this was the U.K. and it was definitely a Moog not rebadged as Realistic ), but it was when we were trying various branded (non tandy) stuff out.
it was definitely the style at least , mini and sloped back

Most likely this one, that my friend Paul Schreiber at Tandy developed with Bob Moog's blessing and schematics.




Luckily Paul isn't dead yet. He went on to start a little one-man synth company that makes these:

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Most likely this one, that my friend Paul Schreiber at Tandy developed with Bob Moog's blessing and schematics.

It was def. branded MOOG though !

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