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Started by Ama Mensah (@amamensah) ·

Switched-On Bach sold a million copies of Bach on a Moog

1968. A modular Moog could only play one note at a time, so every part was built up line by line on tape. It won three Grammys and became only the second classical album ever certified platinum.

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“first synthesizer album hit”
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Minimoog

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  1. “first synthesizer album hit” (google.com)
  2. Switched-On Bach (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Wendy Carlos (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Moog synthesizer (en.wikipedia.org)

    monophonic. every line recorded one note at a time

  5. Robert Moog (en.wikipedia.org)
  6. Minimoog (en.wikipedia.org)

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