page_title: Moog Music
section_title: 1975 – Taurus
hierarchical_section_title: Moog Music / Major products / 1975 – Taurus
caption_attribution_description: Taurus Pedals
context_page_description: Moog Music Inc. is an American company based in Asheville, North Carolina, which manufactures electronic musical instruments. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included various Moog modular synthesizer systems, including the world's first commercial synthesizer, followed by the launch of the Minimoog in 1970, which became one of the most coveted and influential electronic instruments of all time.
  In 1971, following a recession, Robert Moog sold Moog Music to Norlin Musical Instruments, where he remained employed as a designer until 1977. In 1978, he founded a new company, Big Briar. Moog Music declared bankruptcy in 1987 and the Moog Music trademark was returned to Robert Moog in 2002 when Big Briar resumed operations under the name Moog Music.
  Moog Music also manages Moogfest, a pioneering electronic music and music technology festival in Durham, NC.
context_section_description: The first true Moog bass instrument was the Moog Taurus, a pedal-operated analog synthesizer. Like the Moog, it remained a monophonic analog subtractive synthesizer, initially with 13 pedals in its first model. The Taurus II was expanded to include 18 pedals, and the Taurus III returned to 13. 
  The Taurus was picked up by various progressive rock bands, including Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis, and Dream Theater.
caption: The Moog Taurus, with its organ-style pedals
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