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and play the piano at an early age. Aside from a few piano lessons with Reginald DuValle, a local bandleader and accordion player known as "the elder statesman of Indiana jazz," Carmichael had no formal musical training and was largely self-taught as a pianist and a composer. The Carmichael family returned to Indianapolis in 1916, where Hoagy attended Emmerich Manual High School; however, at the age of 16, he dropped out to help support the family. Three years

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