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Old-time music is in Elkins Park resident's blood

Rafe Stefanini feels awkward at parties unless he has a musical instrument in his hand - specifically, a fiddle, banjo, or guitar. The fiddle is his favorite, and with it he plays old-time music surpassingly well. "A national treasure" is how the late folk musician Mike Seeger, half-brother of Pete, once described him.