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If, at the age of 10, Roger Wolfe Kahn had not bought a ukelele in a Ditson Music Shop (Manhattan) together with special-priced instruction in playing, he might have gone to Massachusetts Institute of Technology later in life and become an engineer as his father, Otto Hermann Kahn, hoped. As it was, the ukelele lured him away from his studies at St. Bernard's School, turned his mind toward violins, pianos, banjos, jazz orchestras. At 16, he had organ-ized a paying band, installed it at the...
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