Piano Trivia for the Day

[Mike Spalding]

Google sent me to a site which says:
Glenn Gould's piano chair is a story in itself, and Kevin Bazzana tells 
it in his biography /Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould/. 
Bert Gould customized a folding chair for his son in 1953 (what used to 
be called a bridge chair, for use at a cardtable), cutting several 
inches off each leg and adding a bracket and half-turnbuckle 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnbuckle> so that the height of each leg 
could be adjusted. Gould used the chair for the rest of his life. In the 
1959 film /Glenn Gould: On the Record/, the chair can be seen (in 
Columbia's Manhattan recording studio) with white tape strengthening the 
intersections of legs and seat. In later photos the seat's stuffing is 
spilling out from the back. Later still, the seat disappeared 
altogether, leaving only a wooden frame.

Farrell wrote:
> Ahhh, okay, interesting - modified by his father. Do you know what his 
> father did to it? I suppose it was him that cut a good six inches off 
> the legs? Anything else? Thanks.
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> Terry Farrell
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>> Glenn Gould.  Not made by, but modified by, his father.
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