Google marks 78th birthday of Arthur 'Bob' Moog

The virtual synthesizer allows Google users to play it by simply moving the cursor on the keys. It also allows the users to create their own music, record it, play back and even share them on the social networking site Google+ by just clicking on the g+ button.

It also has features which one can use to adjust volume, mixer, oscillator, filter and envelope controls.

Robert Arthur Moog, who was born on May 23, 1934 in New York, started his career in building electronic musical instruments as a teenager.

Moog, who did his PhD in engineering physics from Cornell University, had even set up two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments.

His 'Moog synthesizer is regarded as a milestone that inspired many and laid the foundation for making of synthesizers in the following years.

Moorg was honoured with a Grammy Award for his technical achievements in 2002. He died of brain tumour on August 21, 2005.

The search giant never misses a chance to feature doodles on its homepage on important days. The doodles were creatively designed to celebrate important holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists.