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== [[Literature]] ==
* In Piers Anthony's ''[[Apprentice Adept|Blue Adept]]'' this is played straight and then averted. Protagonist Stile, during his run through the tournament, is matched against a talented musician by the name of Clef, and has a harmonica duel with him. Stile quickly sees that Clef is far more technically skilled, so he plays for a tie (and therefore a return to the computer to select a different category) by winning over the audience. Instead of getting a tie, however, the competitors are instructed to play a tie-breaker round... as a duet. After a little coaching from Stile, Clef quickly picks up Stile's tricks and also begins drawing in the audience, resulting in him becoming an even better musician.
** And then the trope played straight when the judges, fellow musicians who '''know''' Clef, award the victory to Stile, on the grounds that if Clef's improvement was due to Stile's instruction, then Stile was the better musician; he contributed more to the duet. Becomes more than a little heartwarming when
* Played with a bit in ''Ballet Shoes'', where it's mentioned at one point that the sister who hates dancing ends up being one of the most technically proficient dancers in the school ''because'' she hates dancing, so she ends up taking basic classes year after year and gets all the core moves completely ground into her mind. But her performer sisters are the ones who always get major roles in ballets and plays, while she's always (gladly) stuck in the background. Although in this case her sisters aren't ''bad'' at technique they just never learn it by rote the way she does (and when one of them does end up stuck in that same situation, her performer side comes out more strongly than it does at any other time in the book).
** Dulcie (Technician) and Hilary (Performer) in ''Dancing Shoes'' play out the above description almost to the letter.
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