or record labels, and used to create soundtracks or jingles; by 1970, only 28 were owned by musicians.

Hoping to create a smaller, more reliable synthesizer, the Moog engineer Bill Hemsath created a prototype, the Min A, by sawing a keyboard in half and wiring several unused modular components into a small cabinet. The Moog founder and president Robert Moog felt the prototype was "a fun experiment", but did not see a market for it. Moog and the engineers created the