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Grew up on Rock, Fusion, Jazz
Influenced by Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Scott Henderson,

 Ok, so I am Greg Moore, also known as GiraffeGuitar. Can you guess why?

I make guitars - odd guitars - I started play at age 8 on guitar , age 7 on Piano - a player piano that I would watch the keys depress as the rolls would play great classic songs like Autumn Leaves, Who's Sorry Now, Ode to Joy, and many many ragtime tunes.  I would try to memorize the key movements and follow them as the rolls would play and eventually I could play along with the Player Rolls and improvise along with them.  Then I got my guitar, made the note connections between the piano and guitar and would play the guitar along while I pumped the player piano rolls. Needless to say I had a good Vascular Pulmonary system by age 10.

     Since I had no formal instruction - only a Mel Bay Level 3 book and a Paganini (the Red One) scales Book, I didn't know much about guitar - it was given to me tuned to Drop D and that's how I learned to play it. I didn't learn to play standard tuning until I was 11 Although I did know I was playing a non-standard tuning within the first month of having the guitar - I didn't care - I like the Drop D Tuning. Plus, when I was 10 and got Black Sabbath Master Of Reality, I was all set to learn it.  Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rush, Greg Howe, Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Pat Travers, Joe Satriani - the list would go on ad nausium.