guitar
g is taking guitar lessons. i tried tuning the thing a few times. i broke two strings and decided now would be a good time to read the instructions. oops. the top and bottom strings on a guitar are both e. they are two octaves apart. there are six strings. most strings are 5 half steps apart. except one. cause 24 (=2*12 half steps per octave) isn't divisible by 5. sigh. so i was self tuning the guitar with the bottom two strings half a step too high. which oddly are the strings that produce the highest notes. damn fool instrument is upside down. anywho, in addition, i was tuning the b string to c. which is the one note i can pull out of thin air. which pretty much by dumb luck made the 3 through 6 strings be perfectly in tune. whoopee!. once we got dad straightened out the guitar actually started to sound good.