Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

In 1999 Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software. Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. Moog's first wife was Shirleigh Moog (née Leigh) a grammar school teacher whom he married in 1958.

Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23 1934 – August 21 2005) founder of Moog Music was an American pioneer of electronic music best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.