Robert Moog, who died Sunday at 71, was an electronics tinker who invented and named the Moog synthesizer, the touchstone for a revolution in sound production that has reached every corner of music.

Synth manufacturers have pursued the perfection of electronic music for more than half a century, but in so doing they have arguably sidelined the hitherto wild-west nature of electronic instruments.

Pianist & synthesizer legend Don Preston will be touring Europe starting in September (tour dates below). Don Preston leads a life filled with music, innovation, and experimentation in acoustic and ...

Talented keyboard players can push their instruments to the limit, but there are fundamental setbacks to the format. You can’t typically do vibrato or crescendos on a piano, for instance. A synth ...

Karen Grigsby Bates remembers musical innovator Robert Moog, who died recently of a brain tumor at the age of 71. His signature creation, the Moog Synthesizer, transformed electronic currents into ...

Last year, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker set up a synth company called Telepathic Instruments and announced a debut product: ...

This '80s gem packaged a polysynth, brass and string sections into a single instrument, popping up on records by everyone ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- For years, an urban legend circulated online and in documentaries purporting how part of a groundbreaking musical instrument -- versions which are stored at a Bay Area ...