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Brett McCoy
Lead Guitar
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I'm both left-brain and right-brain dominant.

I've been playing guitar since high school (over 20 years). My first lesson, taken at a small music store with the excellent name of Lothlorien Music in Olney, MD, was the very same day Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley (there's a song in there somewhere...). I'm kind of a 'jack of all trades, master of none' when it comes to guitar, and have delved into nearly every style of playing, including jazz, blues, metal, folk, Celtic, Renaissance, and classical, to name a few.

I also play (or attempt to play) a mishmash of other instruments, most exotic or "World Music" instruments. These include darrabuka (dumbek), mandolin, ukelele, kantele (Finnish lap harp), laouto (a type of lute popular in Greece and Turkey), zurna (a medieval predecessor to the oboe), recorder, plucked psaltry (another kind of lap harp) and also have a hurdy-gurdy that is in need of assembly.

I'm currently working as a software engineer in Gaithersburg, MD, developing Voice over IP (VoIP) software. Other interests include Linux hacking, 3D graphics & animation, sound engineering, cats, reading and re-reading Tolkien to the exclusion of all else, and medieval history.