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...been electrified. Piano, flute, violin, trumpet, drums -each has its own plugged-in cousin. Most conspicuous is pop-rock's king of instruments, the electric guitar. Ten years ago, from Engineering Physicist Robert Moog, came the Moog synthesizer, which first produced music through electricity alone. A nuclear-age superorgan, it looks like the offspring of a piano and a telephone switchboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Synthetic Infinity | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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