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Music maker, oddly overlooked, but keen (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

uke

'music maker' is the definition.
(uke is a kind of musical instrument)

'oddly overlooked but keen' is the wordplay.
'oddly overlooked' means one should take alternating letters.
'but'+'keen'='butkeen'
The alternate letters of 'butkeen' are 'UKE'.

(Other definitions for uke that I've seen before include "George Formby's instrument (abbr)" , "Music producer" , "Notes producer sometimes plucked" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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