# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-buchla
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:04.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-buchla"
name: "Don Buchla"
slug: "don-buchla"
description: "Donald Buchla was an American instrument designer and engineer. He was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s."
tagline: "Musical instrument inventor (1937–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Buchla_and_200e.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-04-18"
deathDate: "2016-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.569369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Buchla"
    title: "Don Buchla"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Buchla"
    title: "Don Buchla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Buchla"
    title: "Don Buchla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Buchla"
    title: "Don Buchla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Buchla"
    title: "Don Buchla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Buchla"
    title: "Donald Buchla"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1238976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump