But after the phone call, the journalist promised to ask a few friends to teach him.
Indeed, it seemed there was nothing he enjoyed more than playing music for a few friends.
Whatever the economic logic, the Canadian attitude is winning few friends at the talks here.
In search of answers, I canvassed a few friends and family members for ideas.
The same applies to the U.S., as one of Israel's few friends and its principal ally.
"The funeral was a solemn affair with a few friends present, " her daughter Usha Ratra told PTI.
We had a route sketched mostly in my mind and the numbers of a few friends of friends.
One of his servants brings him a knife, and Seneca asks a few friends to witness his suicide.
Her battle with striking coal miners won her few friends in mining communities in northern England and Wales.
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Originally he intended, he says, to create a small retreat for his own family and a few friends.
Feiglin's religious adherence to his views has made him few friends in Likud or elsewhere in Israeli politics.
Soon after he was expelled from the board, Watson, with a few friends, founded his own group, Earthforce.
When I was in college I worked on a project with a few friends that we called Aplufant.
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And Mr Rudd's short temper had won him few friends to call on when the final crisis loomed.
But in a business that tends to reward schmoozers, O'Neal was a loner with few friends at the banks.
In 1999, he and a few friends decided that it was time to start a business of their own.
Cardinal Mahony's uncompromising stance is winning him few friends, but it does have a certain legal and financial logic.
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Never one to take my own word for it, I asked a few friends to try this sparkler as well.
Public-health officials already conduct random sampling, so getting the participants to name a few friends too should not be onerous.
He traveled back home to Haiti last March, but Charles says he has few friends and family who've been back since.
Pepco, the utility that services the greater Washington DC area, has few friends among its customer base thanks to spotty reliability.
Lucky for them, all they have to do is sign up a few friends for a fresh hit of virtual cash.
The opposition has won few friends among the growing number of uncommitted Venezuelans, who show little enthusiasm for politicians of any stripe.
She made few friends in the European Community either, with her "handbagging" and insistence on a rebate for excessive British budget contributions.
The head-office decisions that led to the banks' hasty withdrawal from Asia have left the Japanese with few friends among the region's borrowers.
The staff greeted me (and a few friends that decided to check it out) and immediately welcomed and invited us on an informal tour.
The tobacco companies, once among the mightiest lobbyists in Washington, seem to have few friends left in either of America's two main political parties.
Where once it could rely on support from the Soviet Union and pan-Arab solidarity, Syria now has few friends in the world except Iran.
Washington Mutual 's Kerry Killinger called in a few friends from the past to help salvage the largest U.S. thrift, and possibly his job.
In another study, of men in Sweden, researchers discovered that the leading risk factor for heart attack after smoking was having only a few friends.
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