[f_minor] CD318 and the Chickering

Tue Jan 21 04:52:13 MST 2014

Good day Elaine,

Intrigue has set in ... I work 2 minutes from the CBC building and at lunch time today, I'm going to stroll over there to see if the sign has been revised. Stay tuned!

Karl

> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:32:03 -0800
> From: elaine19c at yahoo.ca
> To: f_minor at glenngould.org
> Subject: Re: [f_minor] CD318 and the Chickering
> 
> Hi again guys,
> 
> Oh dear, perhaps I made it sound worse than it was; the piano IS on a raised platform
> and there is a display on the wall beside it talking about GG and the piano
> and it is more or less protected by the cord barrier (thank goodness!) but I'd
> gone in expecting EVERYONE inside to have knowledge of this cherished instrument
> and its location within the building. It took me much wandering about asking folks
> where it was until one person headed me in the right direction! It is a rather confusing
> building with various levels connected by spiralling staircases. Needless to say,
> I got a workout that evening! (But not too much for an f_minorite...)
> 
> The lovely old Chickering is of course at the CBC building downtown in the lobby
> of the GG Studio. There's a sign saying please don't touch it or rest your drinks
> on it but it also says this is GG's "childhood piano" which is certainly wrong as he
> "met" it through his girlfriend when he was in his late teens. I emailed them down
> there saying the wording on the sign was misleading but I don't think it has been changed.
> 
> Oh well!!!
> 
> I took a pic of it, if anyone wants to see the Chickering. (What a marvellous name,
> by the way, don't you think?)
> 
> Elaine
> 
> 
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> On Sat, 1/18/14, maryellen jensen <maryellenjensen28 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [f_minor] les chaises (the chairs)
> To: "f_minor at glenngould.org" <f_minor at glenngould.org>
> Received: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 8:35 PM
> 
> 
> The Chair has
> become more important than the piano: that's
> hagiography.
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> From: pzumst at bluewin.ch
> To: f_minor at glenngould.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:24:23 +0100
> Subject: Re: [f_minor] les chaises (the
> chairs)
> 
> 
> 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)
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 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   
> > 
> > From: 
> kjb at sympatico.ca
> > To:
> f_minor at glenngould.org
> > Date: Thu, 16
> 
> >
> To 
> the best of my knowledge, his father had
> > made only 2.
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Why 2 though, one as a spare?
> > 
> 
> >  
> > 
> > When someone constructs something like
> that out 
> of wood, you
> > do not usually construct a
> spare (as a just in 
> case).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'm relatively
> certain that the 
> chair being only 14
> > inches off the
> floor, was not made for anyone other 
> than
> > Glenn!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> >  
> > 
> > Karl
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> > From: pzumst at bluewin.ch
> > To:
> > 
> f_minor at glenngould.org
> > Date: Thu, 16
> Jan
> > 2014 18:55:55 
> +0100
> > Subject: Re: [f_minor]
> > 109
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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....
> > 
> >
> 
> >  
> > 
> > From: 
> maryellen
> > jensen 
> >
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:45 
> PM
> > To: f h ; f_minor at glenngould.org
> > 
> > Subject: Re: 
> [f_minor] 109
> >  
> >
> 
> > "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  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 
> 07:01:56 -0800
> > From:
> > boyboy_8 at yahoo.com
> >
> To:
> 
> > 
> > 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.  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 
> Saturday,
> > January 11, 2014 3:50:25 PM,
> michael macelletti
> > 
> <mmacelletti at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> > 
> > just listened to
> gould's beethoven sonata no. 30 on
> > 
> 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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