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To everything there is a season.

Turn, turn, turn . . .

That Bible verse woven into song by Pete Seeger could have been written for Trapezoid.

Since 1975, when Paul Reisler pulled together a hammered dulcimer quartet to demonstrate the range of his favorite instrument and borrowed a name from its unusual shape, TrapeV zoid has taken turn after musical turn in continual evolution. One of the group’s longest turns will end at Washington’s Gay Street Theater Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. when Reisler, Lorraine Duisit, Michael Aharon, and Frevda , Epstein perform together for the last time as Trapezoid.

“Everyone wants to know why the foursome is breaking up, but the real question is what kept us together for so long,” said Reisler, answering the now familiar inquiry one more time.

But if the marriage has ended, the divorce has been amicable. “We all still get along. We’re all still friends,” Reisler emphasized. “Lorraine wanted

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