http://smashingtelly.com/2008/04/01/glenn-gould-chair/ A hand picked TV channel Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://smashingtelly.com/2008/04/01/glenn-gould-chair/comment-page-1/#comment-964 Max Cohen Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:15:24 +0000 http://smashingtelly.com/2008/04/01/glenn-gould-chair/#comment-964 When I was a kid studying piano, someone took the bench out of the studio and my teacher reluctantly had me use a chair for the session. I loved it so much I never went back. There's just something about a bench that forces me to sit in an uncomfortable position. It wasn't until years later that I had even heard of Gould. I saw a clip of him playing and thought "Finally! Someone else who likes a chair!" Every time I play in public I get the "Gould reference" because of the chair. It's amazing how people associate that damn thing to him. When I was a kid studying piano, someone took the bench out of the studio and my teacher reluctantly had me use a chair for the session. I loved it so much I never went back. There’s just something about a bench that forces me to sit in an uncomfortable position. It wasn’t until years later that I had even heard of Gould. I saw a clip of him playing and thought “Finally! Someone else who likes a chair!”
Every time I play in public I get the “Gould reference” because of the chair. It’s amazing how people associate that damn thing to him.

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