July 27, 2026 (Asheville, NC) — The Bob Moog Foundation is excited to announce an extraordinary donation from inMusic Brands, the parent company of Moog Music. This donation includes a collection of Bob Moog’s personal office files and effects during the final years of his tenure at Moog Music. It encompasses 4,489 items, including well over 500 schematics and 700 letters. In addition, vintage synthesizers and prototype models were donated, including a Fairlight CMI, a Synton System 3000 modular synth, a bench-model Minimoog Voyager prototype, and more.
This extensive collection also comprises hundreds of back issues of industry magazines and dozens of rare product catalogs for almost every imaginable peer company in the electronic music instrument industry from the past several decades. Poignant letters of correspondence between Bob Moog and dozens of industry luminaries, including Wendy Carlos, Herb Deutsch, Felix Visser, and Lydia Kavina, were all waiting to be rediscovered. Bob Moog’s original writings can be found in first drafts of book forewords and technical articles for several publications. His invaluable artwork and handwritten engineering notes can be found in a collection of schematic notebooks.
“The Bob Moog Foundation serves as an essential steward of one of the most important legacies in electronic music,” noted Joe Richardson, President of Moog Music and Executive Vice President of inMusic. “We are proud to contribute these materials so they can be preserved and made accessible to researchers, educators, musicians, and fans. As Moog Music continues to bring creative tools to artists around the world, the Foundation’s educational mission helps ensure that the ideas, curiosity, and ingenuity that defined Bob Moog continue to inspire others.”
Within the varied collection of test models are Moogerfooger prototypes, a Multiple Resonant Filter (MuRF) test fixture, and a Moog Phone Controller model PC-30. Also included are 16 multi-drawer cabinets filled with countless capacitors, integrated circuits, and other electronic components used in the creation and repair of Moog synthesizers.
The Bob Moog Foundation has made great efforts to evaluate, document, and archive this immense donation, a project that has taken well over a year.
This donation from inMusic Brands continues a supportive relationship among inMusic, Moog Music, and the Bob Moog Foundation. While Moog Music carries forward Bob’s technical legacy of producing innovative electronic musical instruments, the Bob Moog Foundation, a separate, independent non-profit organization, inspires the next generation of innovative thinkers through the intersection of science, music, technology, and innovation. Past inMusic donations to the Bob Moog Foundation Archives include Bob Moog’s 2002 Technical Grammy and the original woodworking lathe used by Bob Moog and his father, George Moog, to craft handmade cabinetry for very early Moog instruments.
“The Bob Moog Foundation is deeply grateful to inMusic for this incredible, generous donation of historical archival material,” said Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation. “Every donated piece helps us tell the story of Bob’s complex, indelible legacy. This donation helps solidify the Bob Moog Foundation Archives as a world-class repository for Moog and electronic music history”
This windfall of historical items adds to the preservation of Bob Moog’s legacy in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, which also includes 1954 R.A. Moog Co. Model 201 and Model 351 theremins, Bob’s very first-ever electronic instrument (the “Rensitron”), Herb Deutsch’s Melodia theremin from 1961 and R.A. Moog Co. Minimoog from 1971, an R.A. Moog Co. Troubadour theremin from 1962, two Moog modular synthesizers from 1967, a Musonics Minimoog, Gary Wright’s Moog Liberation keytar, the Polymoog Apollo prototype, the first Minimoog Voyager ever sold, and much more.
The vast and growing Bob Moog Foundation Archives is a world-class collection of over 15,000 pieces of historical materials related to the life and work of Bob Moog and those who worked with him. The Foundation protects and preserves these items for sharing with researchers, journalists, and museums, and features them in its own Moogseum, located in downtown Asheville, NC.
To learn more about the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, visit: https://moogfoundation.org/projects/bob-moog-foundation-archives/
About the Bob Moog Foundation
Founded in 2005, the Bob Moog Foundation is dedicated to carrying on the innovative legacy of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog. Through programs like Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, and the Moogseum, the organization inspires the next generation of musicians and innovators by blending science, music, technology, and education. For more information, visit https://moogfoundation.org/
