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  "textContent": "Kumalo made a radical change in his bass technique during a tour of South Africa – before he ever played a note with Paul Simon",
  "title": "“The bass strings broke – I had to tie them together. I would slide down the strings, cutting my fingers and getting blood all over the bass”: Bakithi Kumalo looks back at his formative years touring South Africa"
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