History
The Taurus was originally intended to be one-third of a larger synthesizer ensemble called the Constellation. The Constellation included two keyboards — the polyphonic Apollo and the monophonic Lyra. This "polyphonic ensemble" was prominently used in prototype form on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1973 Brain Salad Surgery album and live during ELP's 1973-1974 World Tour. (But Keith Emerson did not use the Taurus bass pedal unit in this configuration.) The Constellation was never actually released as such; the Apollo was greatly refined and ultimately released as the Moog Polymoog Synthesizer; the Lyra — which Keith Emerson's roadie Will Alexander describes as "A Minimoog on steroids"— was never commercially produced. Emerson owned the only Constellation prototype ever made. The Taurus pedal synthesizer was released as a self-contained unit, circa 1974 or 1975.
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