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Musicians

ShazzieB

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8. Chris Thile is awesome!

Reply to duckworth969 (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 2, 2024, 05:56 PM

Jun 2024

Don't feel bad - you almost got the spelling perfect, and it's a very unusual name. But anyway....he is an absolutely amazing mandolin player, so I'm sure his advice is good.

I just watched the video, and wow...I swear that man has magic fingers!

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