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The 6th String

Day 109 - April 19, 2010

 

Standard guitars come with six strings arranged from thinnest to thickest. The sixth string, (the one closest to the ceiling) is the thickest and produces the lowest pitch. But aside from the deep tone it creates, of equal if not more importance is the fact that the sixth string is also used as the reference string for tuning a guitar.

 

When tuning, you see, the sixth string is tuned first, then all the others follow. If you tune one string wrong, the one that follows will be out of tune. You get the picture (pun intended).

 

Life, on the other hand, may be less about tuning, but as the strings of a guitar are interdependent, so are we. How we chose to live our life in turn affects the lives of those closest to us.

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