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Quixotry — a word that originates in the romantic, impractical actions of Don Quixote, hero of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615) by Cervantes.

It was played by a carpenter named Michael Cresta on October 12, 2006, in the basement of a Unitarian church in Lexington, MA.

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