Rare Synths For Sale

Few know synths better than musician, composer, and music technologist Erik Norlander. As the keyboardist in supergroup Asia, he toured the world performing on a number of synths; he then went on to help IK Multimedia create the UNO, as well as the Syntronik sample libraries based on his extensive collection. Now, fans of his music and synth heads alike can purchase his instruments for a good cause.

At 10:00 a.m. on Monday, October 20th, more than 40 vintage and current synths and keyboards will be available at Erik Norlander's Bob Moog Foundation Benefit Sale on Reverb. Thirty percent of the proceeds from sales of the instruments will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation to support its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum.

Erik Norlander told us, "I am excited to offer part of my rather sprawling keyboard collection for sale to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation. I have been a supporter of the Foundation since 2007, and I strongly believe in generating funding to empower its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum."

Here's the official press release with more details...

Musician, composer, and music technologist, Erik Norlander, is selling a collection of 40+ vintage and current synthesizers and keyboards on Reverb.com. Thirty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation to support its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum. 

Some of the notable synthesizers and keyboards for sale include: Oberheim Matrix-12, OB-Xa and OB-8 analog synthesizers, Rhodes (ARP) Chroma analog synthesizer, Rhodes Mark V and Mark II electric pianos, Farfisa Compact Duo CD/30 combo organ, Farfisa Syntorchestra, Korg Maxikorg DV800, Logan String Melody string synthesizer, Roland VP-330 MK-1 Vocoder, and the Waldorf Q wavetable synth keyboard, among many others.

Erik Norlander is an accomplished keyboardist, composer and producer with over 40 album credits including nine solo albums, seven with his Rocket Scientists project, and 11 albums with vocalist wife, Lana Lane. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bob Moog Foundation. Erik toured and recorded with Asia Featuring John Payne from 2007 to 2014 and recorded two albums with the Asia spinoff project, Dukes of the Orient, in the years following. He toured extensively in the US and Europe in 2016-2018 with Last in Line featuring original Dio members Vinny Appice and Vivian Campbell. Before Last in Line, Erik toured with Big Noize, a supergroup featuring hard rock all stars, Joe Lynn Turner, Simon Wright and Carlos Cavazo. Erik also wrote the music and produced the album, Roswell Six - Beyond the Horizon, in 2009 for science fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson, in support of the first of his Terra Incognita fantasy novels.

Outside of the music world, Erik co-designed the UNO Synth analog synthesizers for IK Multimedia, carrying on the legacy of his design work on the legendary Alesis Andromeda analog synthesizer in the late 1990s. Erik also created IK Multimedia's Syntronik virtual instrument libraries based solely on samples of his synth collection along with scores of sample libraries for SampleTank 4. Prior to that, Erik was the first synthesizer product manager for Alesis Studio Electronics and presided over the creation of the QS series of synthesizers, DM5 and DM Pro drum modules and several other products. He is currently the Director of Keyboard Product Development for Moog Music and the inMusic Family of brands.

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More information:

• Reverb

• The Bob Moog Foundation Is Fundraising 14-Oct-26
• Bob Moog Foundation Livestream Events 09-Sep-26
• Win Vintage And New Moog Synthesizers 01-Sep-26
• Frank Serafine And Bob Moog Talk 11-Aug-26
• Bob Moog Foundation 20th Anniversary 04-Aug-26