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Gary Gable was born Gary Grebelsky in Akron, Ohio in 1948. He began playing melodies when he was five years old during rare visits to his great-aunt in Cleveland. Gary took piano lessons at the age of nine, starting with a keyboard made of paper. A shy and self-conscious child, Gary was recognized as creatively and intellectually gifted. He studied classical piano on and off for three years before quiting to create his own music. During childhood, he loved to explore the feel and sound of every piano in a local department store. Each spoke to him with its own music. At the age of twelve his father bought him a tape recorder from a pawn shop and Gary began recording some of his music. Gary graduated from Oberlin College in 1971, with a major in Communications and a minor in Studio Art. At Oberlin he loved his access to every piano, organ and harpsichord in the practice rooms of the conservatory and he worked as an assistant in a film mix house and recording studio in Cleveland, exp...