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While playing at the Rosemont with Ted Navare, I met a fine violin player. His name was Al Dufy ... The audition was for Ernie Rapee; he was the conductor. He said to me ... "Can you play jazz?" So, I played "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," but not with one string, but with two, three, four strings at a time. At that time, they never heard anything like that on a guitar. "Can you read?" I said, "Yeah." Tell you the truth, I couldn't read, but I had a lot of nerve. "Can you read second violin parts?" "Oh, sure." I couldn't even read guitar parts. ...

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