Lou Reed loves the Moog Guitar

Ditto Kaki King, Joey Santiago, Julian Lage and Brett Comeaux, among many others.

Introduced in 2008, the $3,500 instrument deploys magnetic fields to keep the strings vibrating indefinitely — or even stop them cold.

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The Moog Guitar provides an incredibly intimate playing experience that connects musicians directly to the source of the sound: the strings of the guitar. It does this by controlling the way the strings vibrate. In a very coherent way, it gives energy to, and takes energy away from the strings. The resulting timbres do not rely on effects or post-processing. They are created directly from the strings.

Touching the strings, being able to directly manipulate the very source of sound is fundamental to the nature of the guitar and to the spirit of playing it. The Moog Guitar’s controls just set the background mode — the control system characteristics. The strings are always your main user interface.

Below,

the new model E1.