The piano, Gould said, "is not an instrument for which I have any great love as such ... I have played it all my life, and it is the best vehicle I have to express my ideas." In the case of Bach, Gould noted, "[I fixed the action in some of the instruments I play on—and the piano I use for all recordings is now so fixed—so that it is a shallower and more responsive action than the standard. It tends to have a mechanism which is rather like an automobile without power steering: you are in control and not it; it doesn't drive you, you drive it. This is the secret of doing Bach on the piano at all. You must have that immediacy of response, that control over fine definitions of things."