A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Summary and Reviews

A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
by Katie Hafner

A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
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Author: Katie Hafner
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-28
ISBN: 1596915250
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Book Review: A Romance on Three Legs
Summary: 4 Stars

This happens to be a wonderful introduction to Glenn Gould and some of his eccentricities. The actual tracking of CD318's life is interesting but slightly lacking in detail. However, given the fact that this is not a deeply scholarly work, it is still an excellent addition to a Glenn Gould library as it contains many important discussions such as the background of Glenn's tuner and his infinite struggle to become a master tuner and Franz Mohr's delusion that he was Glenn's only tuner, ha ha ha. I believe that in any subject one needs to read as many works as possible so as to ascertain all possible knowledge of that which the individual has undertaken to study and this is certainly a fun and an easy read with some interesting comments by the author that are not included in more scholarly works. In summa, buy it and enjoy, he is a fabulous Bach interpreter

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