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Tal Farlow

Tal Farlow discusses guitar players

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Tal Farlow discusses his take on guitar as a whole

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Tal Farlow discusses his start as a jazz musician

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Q: “There’s something really special about guitar players. Maybe it’s because you’re all self-taught and you’re always trying to learn something – I shouldn’t say all but a great number of guitar players…”

A: “It could be. I guess that's a part of it. Well, it's a kind of an instrument, I think, that lends itself to socializing a little bit, do you know what I mean? It's sort of a party instrument. You can take it with you and you can play it on all kinds of ... you know, you can play it softly, you can play it loud and you can play ... I mean, you can get a lot of music out of two guitars, you know, even if there's nobody else around, so I think that's what it usually gets down to sooner or later. The guy that you're going to find to play it together, you know.”