Original sentence: August 15 1933 in New York, New York - August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist.He was an accomplished musician; a distinctive singer who plays autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, and dobro.He was exposed to traditional "old-time music" through his mother Ruth Crawford-Seeger and father Charles Seeger, who worked with musicologists John and Alan Lomax.Mike Seeger (b.Seeger died at home the evening of August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18
Edited sentence: He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, and dobro.He was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18.He was exposed to traditional "old-time music" through his mother Ruth Crawford Seeger and father Charles Seeger, who worked with musicologists John and Alan Lomax.Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist.Seeger died at home on August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.Seeger was born in New York