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In 1994, jazz musician and composer Kenny Werner released his landmark book, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, which freed artists arou

Identifies an array of popular musical instruments and discusses how they are made, how they sound, and the styles of music for which they are best suited.

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