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“I’m thinking about call numbers, index points and stuff like that when I’m cataloging all week and then for a half hour none of that crosses my mind,” Randy Scott, a comic art bibliographer, said. “It uses a different part of your brain to play music.” A group of MSU library staff and a retiree meet for a half hour every Friday in the special collections section of the Main Library to play old-fashioned swing and easy listening jazz tunes. They frequently switch among the bass, guitar, harmonica, drums and piano. “We try to keep it interesting just for ourselves; there is no audience,” Scott explained. “It’s a great recreation. That’s really all it is.”

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