Moog Taurus: Paperback, 76 pages, Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, OmniScriptum

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Moog Taurus bass pedals are a foot-operated analog synthesizer designed and manufactured by Moog Music from 1976 to 1981. Commonly called the Taurus I, it has a 13-note organ-style pedal board similar to the pedal keyboard of a spinet organ. The Taurus was originally intended to be one-third of a larger synthesizer ensemble called The Constellation that also included two keyboards: The polyphonic Apollo and the monophonic Lyra. This "polyphonic ensemble" was prominently used in prototype form on the Emerson, Lake and Palmer 1973 Brain Salad Surgery album and live during ELP's 1973-1974 World Tour, although the Taurus bass pedal unit was not used by Keith Emerson within this configuration. The 3-part Constellation was never actually released as such; the polyphonic Apollo was greatly refined and ultimately released as the Moog Polymoog Synthesizer; the Lyra - which Keith Emerson's roadie Will Alexander describes as "A Minimoog on steriods", was never commercially produced. The Taurus pedal synthesizer was released as a self-contained unit, c. 1975-76.