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My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. – Alexander McCall Smith

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