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Pioneering bluegrass, mandolin player dies at 89

Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, NY, at the age of 89.

Along with his brother Ralph, Frank Wakefield was a member of the Wakefield Brothers as a teenager and mastered the heavily syncopated, “chop” chord of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe.

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