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In Grant City, Missouri, Glenn Miller acquired and learned to play his first horn, an old trombone that was lying on a shelf in a back storeroom of a cleaning parlor. The Miller family lived in Grant City during the years 1915/18. As a boy, Miller worked as a shoeshine boy for John Mosbarger, who owned the cleaning parlor, led the town band, and taught Glenn Miller to play the trombone.
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