I have 3 of everysong in my itunes.  How do I delete multiple songs?

I recently transferred my itunes library to a new computer.  Now in itunes I have all my songs, but times 3.  Every song (about 3800 of them) are in my library 3 times.  How can I delete 2 of every song (about 7600 songs).  How do I delete multiple songs?

Try this thread which describes how to do the clean up by hand when the circumstances make that easy enough and gives the background to my script DeDuper which takes away the guesswork of which 2 out of 3 to delete.
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