Is it even possible to do all that on a single guitar?

Guitars

While Tim has been tuning Pete’s guitar for Chris to take home, I’ve been learning about guitars. Interesting to note:

  • there are 72 fret positions, but only 37 unique notes
  • the strings aren’t the audible noise; the soundboard is
  • the notes’ frequencies are offset by the 12th root of 2 (about 1.0595)
  • the tempered scale is based on a 440 Hz A note

Who says you can’t learn something new every day?