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NEW LEASE OF LIFE

’ve taken up guitar in my 70s and have one lesson a week. My tutor has a lot of young kids who can’t afford much and so, for a while now, I’ve been buying cheap secondhand guitars from various sources – Gumtree, car-boot sales,

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