Complex sentence: As a child, instead of listening to the "Grand Ole Opry" with his father, he took classical piano lessons, which ended when he lost part of his right thumb to a work accident as a teenager.
Split into simpler sentences: As a child, instead of listening to the "Grand Ole Opry" with his father, he took classical piano lessons. Piano studies ended when he lost part of his right thumb to a work accident as a teenager.