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Ready to play violin? Quit! (3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bow out

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'quit' is the definition.
(I know that bow out is a more specific form of the action retire)

'ready to play violin?' is the wordplay.
'ready' becomes 'out' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'play violin?' becomes 'bow'.
'out' after 'bow' is 'BOW OUT'.

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(Other definitions for bow out that I've seen before include "What a string player often gets" , "Withdraw from a situation" , "Retire from the scene with bodily gesture of acknowledgement?" , "Exit; retire" , "Retire gracefully" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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