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A musician, but very good at weaving satin (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pianist

'a musician' is the definition.
(pianist is a kind of musician)

'very good at weaving satin' is the wordplay.
'very good' becomes 'pi' (old-fashioned term for 'pious').
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'weaving' indicates an anagram (letters weaved together differently).
'satin' with letters rearranged gives 'anist'.
'pi'+'anist'='PIANIST'

'but' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for pianist that I've seen before include "Musician" , "Keyboard player" , "key man" , "Key worker," , "Ivories tinkler" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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