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Old 01-05-2021, 04:53 PM
Gordon Currie Gordon Currie is offline
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Originally Posted by Truss_Rod View Post
I get what you're saying but from MY viewpoint, the first string to be struck when strumming is called the "sixth" string and the last is called the "first" so it still doesn't make much sense to me it's like this.
Yes, this is somewhat arbitrary, but it has been in use for more than a century, so we just have to live with it.
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