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To: monkeyshine
I was unaware that Django Reinhardt had only three fingers. Here's an earlier version.

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40 posted on 11/19/2020 5:21:40 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

The great Django was terribly burned once in a aravan fire at age 18 when he was already attaining acclaim and winning awards. He had to adapt to only wo fully functioning fingers. Amazing how he rose from that to originality and greatness again in jazz guitar.

Note: On a far lesser scale, Joni Mitchell had to adapt her guitar string tunings because polio reduced the ability of her fingers to have the strength to reach some chord patterns.


60 posted on 11/19/2020 5:33:22 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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