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The Minimoog made synthesizers portable enough for bands

The 1970 model folded a whole modular patch into one wooden case Moog's Minimoog packed three oscillators, a filter and a keyboard into a single wedge-shaped case with a fixed signal path and no patch cables. It cost around 1,500 dollars and sold roughly 13,000 units, carrying the synthesizer out of the laboratory and onto rock and funk stages. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The 1970 model folded a whole modular patch into one wooden case. The figure is taken from Moog Music, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.