how guitar wire strrings
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Explanation:
It doesn’t take much strumming to figure out there is something…odd…about the guitar strings order — specifically, the way they’re tuned. Take the mandolin, which is tuned (lowest to highest string) GDAE. Here, each string is tuned a perfect 5th away from the next. This makes sense. You can be a rank beginner and still manage to crank something tuneful out of your new axe.
But on a guitar, the tuning gods threw players a curve ball. Everything is fine with the first four strings, which resemble the mandolin, only in reverse order (EADG). But then you get to “B”, which instead of being tuned a perfect 4th away from its neighbor like the first four strings, is tuned to a major 3rd away (FYI: this is typically the exact point at which newbie pickers begin to understand the joys of