The Moog Guitar is a unique, high-end electric guitar made by Moog, a maker of analog-based synthesizers. The guitar's chief innovations are strings and pickups that interact unlike those on other electric guitars. The Paul Vo Collector's Edition is the first model released and the first guitar ever made by Moog—depending on demand, others may follow.1
Although Moog is known for its synthesizers, its guitar is not a synthesizer in disguise. Rather, it physically manipulates its strings to produce sounds that would otherwise require complex—and maybe impossible—fingering techniques. The key to the device is its reconceived relationship between the pickups and strings. While on a normal electric guitar, the pickups act as microphones for the strings, picking up their sounds and sending the signal to the amplifier, the Moog guitar's pickups essentially control the strings along with the player, while picking up the signal.2 The result, according to Moog's official site, is a guitar that can sustain a note indefinitely, automatically "mute" certain strings, and blend these features to produce unusual tones.1
