I came home from school today and felt as if I needed to play the guitar at that very moment to continue striving on this planet. So I picked up the closest acoustic guitar to where I was sitting and strummed a chord, only to realize that a few days earlier, while I was doing a live webcam show for someone, I had retuned all the strings to a whole step higher than they were supposed to be because I didn’t have a capo. So as I went through and retuned my strings, signs of my true stupidity shone through.
(1) I tried tuning my G string but ended up turning the B string peg, kept turning the wrong peg, and wondered why the pitch wasn’t changing.
(2) Regardless of what peg I was turning, I was turning it the wrong way. Instead of loosening the string to make the pitch lower, I was tightening the string.
The string broke.
I fished through my storage container to get a spare B string and found one. I was too lazy to replace all my strings, so I just pulled out my broken string and put in the new one. Then I had a revolutionary discovery.


When you look at the new B string head-on, it looks just the same as the other strings. But, if you tilt the guitar and shine light on it, THE STRING TURNS GOLD.
Refer to the photographs above as proof that I did in fact make this discovery.