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Melodica

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The plastic schoolroom mouth-organ keyboard that Augustus Pablo made a serious instrument: from "Java" (1972) through King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, its reedy minor-key wail became the sound of deep 1970s dub — a toy elevated by one player's conviction.

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