Peter would always 'think first and then say something'. Often we would not say anything for quite a while, ha, ha. We had kind of a strange friendship that way. We never talked about music, only that it was all in a day's work. He was particularly remarkable at a mandolin workshop for the CMSA (classical mandolin society of America) where he said nothing for 10 minutes in front of about 60 students. Some people stuck their head in the door, saw no activity and left, others packed up and left the room. Then he spoke. He said, 'I was waiting for the people who really want to participate, and the others to leave.' He then asked for requests. He got about 10 diverse requests from the Beatles tunes to one's he'd recorded and then played them all without ANY help in remembering the requests.
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