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'I Just Twerked and Played James Madison's Flute From the 1800s'

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Singer Lizzo is also a classically trained flautist—and she is one of the few people ever to play a crystal flute French craftsman Claude Laurent sent President James Madison.
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Singer Lizzo is also a classically trained flautist—and she is one of the few people ever to play a crystal flute French craftsman Claude Laurent sent President James Madison as a gift for his second inauguration in 1813. Lizzo played the flute, borrowed from the Library of Congress, at a concert in Washington, DC, on Tuesday night, the BBC reports. „It’s like playing out of a wine glass,“ she said before playing a few notes and saying, „I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s!“ The flute arrived onstage with a police escort, and Lizzo handed it to a Library of Congress curator when she was finished playing.

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