[f_minor] les chaises (the chairs)

Sat Jan 18 13:24:23 MST 2014

Er. ‘ang on there for a minit.  2012 was Annus Mirabilis with golden throats and lots of blahblah and while Elaine Parks tried to find The Chair in Ottawa it was basically hidden from view and she had to ask a worker where she could find it ? Eh, Canada, is that how you treat your National Treasures ? Ye Gods, how appauling....

From: maryellen jensen 
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:13 PM
To: f_minor at glenngould.org 
Subject: Re: [f_minor] les chaises (the chairs)

Happy New Year Elaine

The little wooden chair with the maple leaf on its back has certainly become "The Chair" but as is now known there were others. Why people are so willing to become 'believers' in mythology or as some would say "hagiography" is beyond my ken.

Showing my age here but yes indeed the leaf back chair is certainly one of a quartet - including a table - of a "bridge set"; showing my age here because I bought a fabulous "bridge set" second hand (for a few dollars) on the Upper West Side NYC way back in 1984, the colour scheme was green and black and the table too. Unbelievable as it might seem, I had to transport the entire set on the subway to where I was living. Ah but one had so much energy...  I miss being able to find such things now. 

Dismaying to read of your experience in Ottawa. Eeek.

Cheers (or chairs),
Mary

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:27:10 -0800

> From: elaine19c at yahoo.ca
> To: f_minor at glenngould.org
> Subject: Re: [f_minor] les chaises (the chairs)
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> I read somewhere or it was in one of the docs that the chairs were typical bridge set chairs
> which means they were probably bought in a set of four. If Lorne has or had one, that would leave
> 2 others out there somewhere, if not trashed at some point!!! Wouldn't it be fun to find them in a 
> second-hand shop??!! (I always keep an eye out for them here in Ontario!!!)
> 
> I visited CD318 in Ottawa last year, cordoned off in a corner of the National Arts Centre, looking
> a bit sad. It took me a half hour to find it, only one worker knew what I was talking about.
> 
> Cheers, (or 'chairs")
> 
> Elaine
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> On Fri, 1/17/14, maryellen jensen <maryellenjensen28 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [f_minor] les chaises (the chairs)
> To: "f_minor at glenngould.org" <f_minor at glenngould.org>
> Received: Friday, January 17, 2014, 9:30 PM
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> The two chairs
> "constructed" by 'Bert', GG's father,
> were not built by Bert - they were adapted for Glenn
> Gould's needs. Bert Gould didn't invent the chairs -
> he adapted already existing chairs for his son. 
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> The other 'aluminum'
> chair which was made specifically for Glenn Gould was
> ordered by Walter Homburger for Glenn Gould. The reason why
> was breakage of the wooden chair and the weight of the
> wooden chair on airline trips. All that was when Glenn Gould
> was touring - which of course he quit doing in the early
> 1960's...
> 
> Mary   
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> From: kjb at sympatico.ca
> To: f_minor at glenngould.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:05:33 -0500
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> To the best of my knowledge, his father had
> made only 2.
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> Why 2 though, one as a spare?
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> When someone constructs something like that out of wood, you
> do not usually construct a spare (as a just in case).
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> I'm relatively certain that the chair being only 14
> inches off the floor, was not made for anyone other than
> Glenn!
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> Regards,
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> Karl
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> To:
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> Speaking of chairs, is it true or false that his dad
> made more than one ? I seem to have read that
> somewhere...there seems to be a lot of urban myth and
> hagiography around that chair....
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> From: maryellen
> jensen 
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:45 PM
> To: f h ; f_minor at glenngould.org
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> "and did you notice that he put
> something on the chair?  I'd never seen that
> before."
> 
> Haha Fred,
> that's the stuffing of the chair tumbling out and when
> all that stuffing was finally gone GG sat on just the T-bar
> of the chair... not so great for his coccyx.
> 
> Mary  
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> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:01:56 -0800
> From:
> boyboy_8 at yahoo.com
> To:
> mmacelletti at sbcglobal.net; f_minor at glenngould.org;
> gmadoodat at hotmail.com; f_minor at glenngould.org
> Subject: Re: [f_minor] 109
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> Sounds like it was done in mono.  Too bad we
> can't hear this done by him in stereo, or did he do one
> in that form?  The technique is of course amazing.  I like
> the way his body swirled around in circles and did you
> notice that he put something on the chair?  I'd never
> seen that before.  
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> vol 4 , so you want to write a fugue, of the old vhs glenn
> gould complete 16 vol collection. ( still out of print
> ???)   absolutely hair-raising type of exciting. those
> sixths in the variations,  wow !!  sure wish someone could
> find that performance somewhere on the net so everyone could
> give it a listen.  i simply have no idea how to do it.
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