Curly Learned Violin as Physical Therapy
Curly wasn’t the only one who experienced a childhood accident. At four years old, Larry suffered a chemical burn in his father’s jewelry shop when he spilled oxalic acid on his arm which burned its way through his skin, exposing his muscles. Receiving a skin graft, doctors suggested he take up boxing to strengthen the damaged tissues but his mother pursuaded him to take violin instead. He later became a gifted musician by the age of nine when he played for the Philadelphia Orchestra.