Authors@Google: Katie Hafner

Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions. But perhaps Goulds greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD 318 (C to signify its special status as having been put aside for the use of Steinway Concert Artists, and D, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built). A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Goulds love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto department store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported.

Katie Hafner, reporter for the New York Times, comes from a family of truly gifted musicians and is a clumsy, but dedicated pianist. She grew up listening to her father, a physicist and talented pianist, play the piano and expound on Glenn Goulds interpretations of Bach. Hafner is the author of four books, including Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with John Markoff) and The Well: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community. 
This event took place on October 15, 2008

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