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Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard Terborch, 1667-1668. (Baroque Art)

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John Rutter

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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