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The Grammy Award winning entertainer died at 88 and survivors suggested memorials be donated to the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra where he played as a teen.
Peter Schickele who has died aged 88, was better known as the fictional composer PDQ Bach, whose Victor Borge-style parodies delighted and entertained audiences; he was equally inventive with instruments, coming up with a trombone-bassoon combination known as the tromboon and the left-handed sewer flute.