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Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Dead had his middle finger of his left hand (he was right handed) chopped off at the second knuckle by his brother Tiff while chopping wood in Northern California when he was 9 years old. He would later say that he used his knub to hold his pick allowing him to switch from picking to finger-picking quickly.

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