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Fact #113381

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Short story:

Jim Morrison of The Doors visits the home of Elektra Records owner Jac Holzman in Los Angeles, California, USA, to give his son Adam a birthday gift of an African thumb piano.

Full article:

Jac Holzman : The doorbell rang in my Los Angeles home. It was the evening of my son Adam's tenth birthday. There was Jim, now a star, shifting uncertainly from foot to foot, clutching an erratically wrapped present for my musically inclined son. He came in, sat quietly with Adam, and showed him how to play the kalimba, an African thumb piano. They sat there for an hour, fully absorbed - two children in their own world.