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Will the real Bob Moog please stand up?


Dave Bryce

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I think I learned the correct pronunciation of Moog in this forum... when I originally joined way back. Most of my fellow musicians here still say the 'oo' as in food.

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Every time the bell sounded (just like the doorbell sound in a previous house) my dog went nuts. 'Dad, you don"t understand. There might be a FedEx truck coming to get us!'

 

 

My little brother slept right through it:

 

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I give credit to the other two guys for supplying reasonable-sounding answers. How do they know what kinds of questions they might be asked, about early synthesis, electronic music, various players of the instrument, union approval of the instrument and players, etc.? I wouldn't have even thought to ask those questions, much less be able to answer them.

 

I still swear I once saw an interview with Bob Moog where he said that his wife was a schoolteacher and because all the kids made fun of her name, Moooooooooooog, they changed the pronunciation to "Mogue". Maybe I dreamt it. :idk:

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Years ago I worked opposite a Welsh colleague who explained to me that Moog was a Welsh word meaning "pig", and pronounced "Moch" (like Scottish Loch).

 

Cheers, Mike.

Apparently, the name is most common in the Western part of Germany and the adjacent part of France.

 

One etymology I"ve found is old German âmaag' for âblood relation'.

 

That would put its original pronunciation somewhere between 'Mogue' and 'Mawg'.

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