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Folding a rug - it follows tune and mime performance (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

air guitar

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'mime performance' is the definition.
'air guitar' can be an answer for 'mime' (mime of playing an air guitar). I'm not certain of the 'performance' bit.

'folding a rug it follows tune' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'rug' is 'rgu' which is located in the answer.
'it' could be 't' (abbreviation. e.g. in 'tis) and 't' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for air guitar that I've seen before include "Just imagine playing this" , "Instrumental object that's non-existent" , "Imaginary instrument played by rock fans!" , "Imaginary stringed instrument" , "Imaginary instrument that one pretends to play" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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