It's hard to tell when the band is winking at its audience, yukking it up behind epic double-guitar leads and dramatic drum fills.

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In their rumbas Congolese musicians slowed the Cuban tempo and added African instruments, drums and the thumb-piano, to the guitar and double-bass.

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The banjos on the veranda are joined by the low boom of a double bass and jaunty pitch of a fiddle and guitar, the audience nodding along to the beat.

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Those revenues could easily double, he figures, if he can get into Guitar Center, the nation's largest musical-instrument chain, with 130 stores.

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It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.

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