Minimoog

Only the first and most famous commercially produced monophonic analog synth of all time! Named after its inventor, Bob Moog, it was initially introduced in 1970 in limited numbers, and built all the way through 1981 by Moog Music of Buffalo, New York. Originally priced at a budget-busting $1495 (a new Fender Stratocaster could be purchased for about $350 at the time of the Minimoog’s release), it had three VCOs, a 4-pole lowpass VCF, two ADSR envelope generators, pitch and mod wheels (clear on early examples, then white), and a 44-note single-trigger, low-note priority keyboard. About 12,000 Minimoog Model Ds were built and sold during its lifetime. Along with the Hammond B-3, Fender Rhodes and the Hohner Clavinet, the Minimoog holds a special place in the hearts of almost all keyboard players who began playing seriously in the 1970s.