I was just reading my gmail and the name "Glenn Gould" in the right-margin google ads caught my eye. Usually I can resist the temptation to click through very easily, but this piqued my curiosity. It was about his chair, and the link went through to this site, The Glenn Gould Chair.
Initially, I thought it would be about an important chair which had been a personal possession of Gould, but no, it's a reproduction. It can be yours for EURO 990.
Here's the wikipedia entry about the gloriously idiosyncratic Glenn Gould, and ironically it is accompanied by a photograph of him at a piano sitting on a folding theatre chair. Nothing fancy about it.
Want to hear what the fuss about Gould is about? Here's some YouTube vision and sound.
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