Amazing how Glenn Gould caresses that piano, in a performance that is almost a spiritual act. Apart from geek toys that often cause more hassle and annoyance t

Amazing how Glenn Gould caresses that piano, in a performance that is almost a spiritual act. Apart from geek toys that often cause more hassle and annoyance than they're worth, the most appreciated material things that I purchased in the first half century of my life are: • The Art of Computer Programming (purchased the first volume aged 16, decades later I'm still waiting for volume 4 to be completed) • Encyclopedia Britannica • J. S. Bach: The complete organ Works on ten CDs. The Voyager space craft contains a disc with Bach's, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No. 1 on it, and the joke among space folks goes, one day a radio telescope will receive a message deciphered as S-E-N-D M-O-R-E B-A-C-H! Don't waste your life striving to be fashionable, aspire eternal beauty and knowledge! PS: I like the visualization, thanks for this blog post and bringing the beauty of Bach that is almost out of this world into a bleak Tuesday afternoon [on which nasty people drop bombs on children and people too stupid for the power they carry keep quiet about it]. I would like to see another visualization, which shows the music scores smooth-scrolling from right to left with all tones currently being played highlighted in yellow, and below the scores I'd like to see the hands playing said tones on the organ, all in temporal alignment.