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Fabulous piano seat debased in refit (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aesopian

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'seat debased in refit' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'fabulous piano' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'piano' is 'opian' which is within the answer.
The remaining letters 'aes' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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