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THE tenor saxophone is the lifelong companion of septuagenarian Alan Skidmore. His father, a prime tenor saxophonist himself, gave him one when he was 14 and encouraged him to practise long notes to develop a sound and scales to develop a technique.
He turned professional when he was just 16.
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