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When I was fourteen years old, I really liked guitars, and my parents gave me one. To tell the truth, I played terribly, but I joined a Punk band.
I live in a “complicated” neighborhood, to call it somehow, and one day when I was going to rehearse, a guy came up to me to steal my guitar.
When I thought I had already lost the guitar and the money. A black-dressed woman appeared, who told my assailant: «we are in mourning, and, according to our traditions, you can´t steal today.»
The thief heeded the woman and gave me back the guitar. He then asked me to play something, and I did.
I played as badly as ever. To excuse me, I said that the guitar must be broken. The guy laughed and asked me for the guitar. When he started playing it, it sounded like Paco de Lucia himself was doing it. In the end, he gave it back to me and said: “there’s nothing wrong with your guitar, it was just out of tune, and you lack technique. Come by tomorrow at this time, I’ll give you lessons”.
That thief became my teacher, and that was his first lesson.
Guitar sounds bad for two reasons: maybe it´s not in tune, or you don’t know how to play it. But the guitar is…
