I just interviewed Katie Hafner on her new book "Romance On Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest For the Perfect Piano."

Katie Hafner is a technology journalist who writes for WIRED, Newsweek, The New York Times and other magazines. She's also a five-book author who has made the leap to a fascinating story about Canada's most complex and brilliant musical artist of the twentieth century. Listen to the podcast here: http://www.bookbuffet.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.article/type/home/article_ID/AE4F5984-9604-4767-B9D39C33A311DA46/index.cfm What has 88 keys, is tuned by a blind man, and played by an obsessive compulsive genius? Answer: The object of desire in Katie Hafner's new biography "A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano" (Published by MCcLelland & Stewart 2008 Canada; Bloomsbury in the USA and UK). Meet CD318. A concert grand piano hand-made by Steinway; she's a little old, a little battered and almost forgotten when she's discovered at the back of the Eatons flagship store showroom in Toronto back in 1960 by the young iconic Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould. The third "leg" of the story comes from Verne Edquist, the near-blind Saskatchewan farm boy who possessed the ear and training to meet Gould's demanding standards. All three combined to produce the sound that would be recorded for posterity in the famous sessions of Gould's most productive 10 years of life before his untimely death.