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Lorne Tulk & Glenn Gould's Chair

Lorne Tulk, a former technician for CBC Radio in Toronto who worked with Gould, tells a story about Gould's attachment to the chairs sat in while recording and how he received one of those very chairs as a gift. This scene is an outtake from the DVD extras of Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould.

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