Today’s ‘Google Doodle’ - above the search box on Google’s home page - is a working synthesiser that can be played with mouse or keyboard.
New York-born Moog’s self-named synthesisers turned electric currents into sound, influencing bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatles before influencing what would become electronica and dance music.
Moog’s synthesisers became a trademark of many genres through the Seventies, influencing everything from funk acts such as Parliament to prog rock.