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The Moog Taurus bass pedal keyboard is a foot-operated analog synthesizer created and manufactured...

The Moog Taurus bass pedal keyboard is a foot-operated analog synthesizer created 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 intended to be part of a larger organ-like synthesizer nicknamed the Constellation that would have also included two keyboards. In time, the upper keyboards were produced: the Polymoog and the Multimoog. The Taurus I was housed in a rugged casing, and it had a five-octave range and came with three preset sounds and one user-programmable "patch" (sound), all of which are controllable using foot switches. The three presets were named Tuba, Bass, and Taurus. Its successor the Taurus II, was produced from 1981 to 1983. The Taurus II had more pedals, a black casing, a modulation wheel and a pitch bend wheel. The control panel on the Taurus II was raised to waist height on a central shaft, to facilitate onstage modifications of the settings. The Taurus II also has a "low note priority" circuit. In the event that the player depresses two notes, the priority circuit will only sound the lowest pitched note. Often the original