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Google honors synthesizer inventor Bob Moog with doodle

By Edecio Martinez

May 23, 2012 / 3:24 PM EDT / CBS News

Synthesizer pioneer, Robert "Bob" Moog, holds a new Moogfooger synthesizer as he sits next to a 1971-era Minimoog synthesizer in his Asheville, N.C. office, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000.

Search giant Google honored the late Bob Moog on his 78th birthday with this interactive Google doodle.

Musician Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer, right, poses with legendary musical electronics engineer, Dr. Bob Moog, left, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer which revolutionized the music industry in the 1970s, Thursday, Aug. 12, 1999, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Musician Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer strikes the piano keys Thursday, Aug. 12, 1999, as he plays the new Van Koevering Interactive Piano, designed by electronic engineer Bob Moog, not seen, during its introduction in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Synthesizer pioneer, Robert "Bob" Moog, holds a new Moogfooger synthesizer as he sits next to a 1971-era Minimoog synthesizer in his Asheville, N.C. office, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000.

Synthesizer pioneer Robert "Bob" Moog is seen in this undated file photo.