# Moog Polymoog
“Here we have an incredibly rare Polymoog. These hardly ever come up and this is a rare classic. There are one or two people in the U.K who have loads of these things stored away which is why, essentially, there are not many of these in circulation. I thought it would be nice therefore to release one into the sales arena to give you guys a chance of owning one. It’s the only one I have and I don’t want to hog them as some do.
This one functionally is top notch and functioning absolutely perfectly. It has been recently overhauled and serviced by a top U.K service engineer.
This is the model 203a version and NOT the 280. So this is called the synthesiser. It has keyboard written on it. The reason I believe to be the case is that Moog named this the Polymoog keyboard when it was built pre-1978. They then launched the model 280 post 1978 which became the keyboard. This version was then renamed the synthesiser.
To be absolutely fair, some people and purists prefer the newer keyboard model 280 version because of its abilities to replicate the famous Garry Newman sound but this model 203a selling here isn’t a million miles away from replicating the same sound, it just isn’t quite as easy to do so.
Everything you need to know about this synth if you aren’t sure about it should be found on vintagesynth.
Cosmetically, to be absolutely honest, this is not fantastic. Its ok, you know pretty good for its age kind of stuff but it would be very wrong to suggest it was excellent or mint, it is good, probably not even very good, just good or maybe fair. I hope I have been reasonable in spelling this out.” Link