How was wc handys childhood?

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Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, to the lhttp://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Pastor of a small church in Guntersville,_Alabama, another small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography, Father of the Blues, that he was born in the lhttp://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Log_cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy.

He cited the sounds of nature, such as hoot owls and their outlandish noises, the sounds of Cypress Creek washing on the fringes of the woodland, and "the music of every songbird and all the symphonies of their unpremeditated art" as inspiration.

Growing up he apprenticed in shoemaking, plastering and carpentry. He bought his first ghttp://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Guitar which he had seen in a local shop window and had secretly saved for by picking berries, nuts and making lye soap, without his parents' permission. His father, dismayed at his actions, asked him, "What possessed you to bring a sinful thing like that into our Christian home?" Ordering Handy to "Take it back where it came from", his father quickly enrolled him in organ lessons. Handy's days as an organ student were short lived, and he moved on to learn the chttp://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Cornet. Handy joined a local band as a teenager, but he kept this fact a secret from his parents. He purchased a cornet from a fellow band member and spent every free minute practicing it.

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