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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Ritchie Blackmore
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Songwriter
Weston-super-Mare
Somerset
Richard Hugh Blackmore
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Richard Blackmore
Melancholy
Isolated
Instrument
Miserable
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Cello

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