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Katie Hafner

Published on June 28, 2008 at 4:22am

Naturally an obsessive, quirky genius like Glenn Gould has enough ideas about what he likes in a piano to fill a book. And that book is A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano. It turns about the famed musician is intent upon a specific instrument -- the Steinway CD 318 concert piano -- which is hard to get. Hilarity, or at least marvelously told anecdotes, follow.
Wed., July 9, 7:30 p.m., 2008